Just Posting…
It has been awhile since we put out a video. We really would like to make more of them to document the types of things we are working on but usually we are too tired. 🙂 Anyway, enjoy!
It has been awhile since we put out a video. We really would like to make more of them to document the types of things we are working on but usually we are too tired. 🙂 Anyway, enjoy!
Lately Ruthie has been a bit fussy. It wasn’t teeth, we did that a few weeks ago.She’s been eating well, so I ruled that out. I thought she was a bit frustrated with her scoot-but-can’t-crawl status. She’s starting to get into everything, but still seemed generally unhappy with her place on the floor, surrounded by…
I sit down, laptop in hand, breakfast by my side. Stewart is manning the children, breakfast, and the morning school activities and I am in a quiet room with enough coffee to float me down a river. I guess that’s what it takes to bang out some photo editing and key strokes these days. But…
Work on the addition has continued, with plenty of help from many supervisors… some wearing cookie pajamas. Once the floor was on, we decided to go ahead and paint it to protect it from the rain. Then the walls went up. And they began, with the help of friends and neighbors, to put the floor…
I realized recently how many things I have forgotten: What it’s like to flush a toilet… how I never used to hear that sleepy breathing of our children as I crawled into my own bed… that everything begins at home… how I could pull the first string that could be the unraveling of my own children. *** It’s funny to watch them…
This is the time of year that things can change on a dime, as they say. I was about to put up a blog post about this dry and thirsty land we live in, but, Lord willing, we may get rain so I’m just gonna’ wait on that one. It’s well into the 90s today,…
Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. It has been quite some time since the creeks ran and the ponds filled and the tanks overflowed, but last week all…
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Aw, what a wonderful surprise……….I Love It…………Miss you
Thanks for sharing with us. You have a beautiful family. I can hardly keep up with the changes.
It is truly amazing to see the maturity of young people who grow up in an agrarian home. The responsibility, and the satisfaction of hard work… a job well done. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful!..
Simply…… beautiful!!
Simply beautiful.
This is so beautiful! <3
Thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Shannon; this was a great gift today as it is chilly, windy and cloudy here. It is always fun to see what you all are doing. Love watching these young ‘ens doing their share. What great fun and what they are learning now is priceless. Thanks so much for sharing your life.
Beautifully done! God Bless!
What a precious little family! And such hard workers … thanks for sharing!
How sweet! What a wonderful snapshot of your family and life. thank you for sharing.
p.s. I’m still smiling–just cannot stop. 🙂
I really enjoyed this video. I smiled the whole time that I was watching it.
Oh my! What a blessing your family is to me! Love to you all!
Love it!
What a precious family! May God continue to richly bless you!
I’ve just discovered your blog and it’s wonderful! You have the most wonderful healthy wholesome family. May you always be blessed in all you guys do!
I love this video, thanks for sharing it with us ((hugs)).
Love it!! Truly beautiful and inspiring. Love ready your blog. Hugs
That was beautiful. Your children are so into living on the land, its wonderful to see the boys building, measuring and working so hard and the little ladies are just too cute. Bless your gorgeous family. xxx
So beautiful!! Amazing that your young sons already know how to mix cement and “plant” fence posts! So much more useful than knowing how to play video games as most kids do. Bless you guys!!
Love the video! Thank you for sharing.
It may or may not be helpful, but every wooden fence post installed on our four acres was done a bit differently… The holes were dug then the post placed exactly as it was to stand. I held the post as my husband poured dry cement mix into the hole and tamped it down to pack it around the post. Moisture from the surrounding ground usually set the cement overnight. They are still tight and standing strong after 22 years.