It is Monday morning and the coffee is fresh at 7 a.m. which is the time of day when I make lists; school, chores to be done, recipes to be tested, and mostly homesteading projects I’d like to get to. It’s seven in the morning, after all, which makes me even more unrealistic than usual….
Her fever broke early that morning and her head was only partly aching by breakfast. All six of her children except the baby were down with less severe symptoms, a pot of soup was brought by her sweet neighbor, and a new batch of Mabel’s butter was on the table so there was much to…
There is a young man who lives in our home now. He sits across from me at the dinner table, shoveling more food than seems humanly possible into that growing body of his and I often mistake him for a grown man out of the corner of my eye. Though he is nearly as tall…
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…
