Postcards: 4 Weeks

mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah

mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
Stewart planted loads of garlic this year. It went in late, to be sure, but because we could find no onions to plant, we planted plenty. This little ma’am is nearing the five month mark. Are my children the only ones who put everything into a bowl with milk and call it cereal? We now…
I remember early spring days with dirty fingers sunk into cold dirt. These boys were much smaller then – four and two – but even at that tender age, we could see that this was exactly what they needed. Seeds were sprouted in so many ways on those long Sundays spent in the garden. One…
I watch him from the window, as the sun goes down and supper cooks, a brief quiet moment in my day. This is his daily ritual, with bright blue snow pants and the eyes of his papa he heads out to soak up cold air and shovel snow. And as I watch him I stand…
Last week Stewart put up a car gate and two homemade walking gates and thereby completed the fencing of the pasture. If you walk around the property you’ll find homemade gates on the pasture, the original two acres, the chicken field, and the pallet garden. I only mention that because I am kind of a sucker…
One of our very favorite meals has always been a simple roast chicken. When we lived up north, we used to purchase a fresh pastured chicken weekly for our little family of four. That chicken stretched for several meals and made one of my very favorite foods: chicken broth. Times have changed quite a bit…
… to have your heart filled in the middle of the filthy laundry pile… … to see the work of a lifetime in the dishes, school books, and tears of the everyday… … to traverse the depths of our depravity with sticky hands on your apron… … to fight for them, first with love and persistence, but in…
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Is that feed for your dairy cow?
What recipe do you use?