Postcards: 4 Weeks

mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah

mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
I don’t really know what happened to January. We started digging up the potato field. We had a lot of cozy evenings by the wood stove. We did a lot of addition and long division and multiplying fractions alongside reading and penmanship and english. I finally got around to planting broccoli starts which have still…
I hope to take a photo when I get a chance, but I had to tell you all about how wonderful alternative cleaners can be. The only things we keep in the house for cleaning are: Vinegar Baking Soda Washing Soda Hydrogen Peroxide Borax Good old fashioned elbow grease 😉 Fels Naptha for homemade laundry…
… 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…
Hi. I took this photo so long ago that this just-opening sunflower is now drooping down from the weight of its giant, yellow head. You haven’t even heard about the 40-some odd chicks and chickens we added to the flock… and the egg hunts that ensued. The nightly sigh of relief we all breathe as…
Our family milk cow, Mabel, is finally over her mama bear phase where she hides away in the pasture with her little one. It happened with Stanley, too, and I am thankful that Mabel seems to be a really good mother. Now these two are up at the barn at least a couple of times…
He calls me Ma and asks if it’s okay if he and his brother live on the land adjacent to us when they grow up. “How about this?” he says with wide eyes and upturned hands. “How about I grow apple trees and we have pigs and we bring you apples and lard from the…
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Is that feed for your dairy cow?
What recipe do you use?