From the very beginning we have been running our barnyard in a way that sounds all too familiar to my own situation, now that I have to say it out loud: There’s a whole lot going on, all in stunning mediocrity, with a bit of chaos everywhere you go. How Did We Get Here? It…
We finally finished processing our latest batch of forty meat birds a few weeks ago.I am always so thankful to have homegrown meat when we’ve gone without for a period of months. I think we ran out of our last steer towards the beginning of 2019 and our last round of canned and frozen meat…
About five weeks ago I threw in the towel on the garden. It was nearing a hundred every day and the rain completely stopped, as it does almost every summer, and somehow, painlessly, easily I just let go. That’s never happened before, me surrendering to the hot and the dry with a simple shrug of…
For the first time in seven-and-a-half years it seems as though it is possible to complete some things. That count goes back to four months after we moved across the country to some raw land and little Annabelle was born. Ever since then, I’ve recently realized, I have not been but a nose-breadth above water…
