Postcards: 4 Weeks
mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
mixing feed rations :: trapping coons :: sweet Hannah
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…
We are slated to have our first real frost and so we are running around gathering blankets and sheets for covering plants, harvesting the last of the summer plants, and getting the wood stove and warm clothes ready. While these things often come and go and we’ll probably be rolling up our shirt sleeves just…
It was one of the last 100+ degree days before the heat broke and the rains came. When we sat around the picnic table sharing watermelon, Kidney Bean & Greens Salad, and cold goat milk, the happy faces belied the weariness of August. Of the five Augusts I have experienced in Texas, this may be the…
When the onslaught of summer heat finally dissipates, the children often remark on the “smell of snow” when they go outside. It seems our area of Texas has two seasons – “hot” and “warm with a chance of cold”. Anything below hot is when they start waiting for snow. These boys of ours love to…
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’ve wanted to homeschool our children since I carried that first precious life in my womb. Those earliest years went fast and smooth, just these two little boys and I. By the time we moved off-grid in 2011, Elijah was five and was writing, doing some basic math, and learning to read. I remember being…
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Is that feed for your dairy cow?
What recipe do you use?