Homesteading

Summer Vacation

Boys barefoot, hanging laundry on the line. Outside with a baby on my hip ‘cuz the weather is so fine. Sun hats on, making pies out of mud. Canning squash every day just because we should. Pigs are getting fat on all those eggs and Mabel’s milk. Making jam from the finest peaches you ever…

Fun in the Potato Field

It doesn’t appear as though the Lord would have me blogging much recently. The garden work on top of a new cookbook has kept pretty much everything else to a minimum these past few months. But then a few weeks ago (or is it a month, now?), my hard drive just up and died. Once…

Spring Postcards

It has pleased the Lord that we would have a gradual move from winter to summer this year. It is quintessentially spring and it has been such a gift. And rain! No one told me how much easier it is to garden when you don’t have to constantly water your seedlings! Y’all everything is growing and…