It has pleased the Lord that we would have a gradual move from winter to summer this year. It is quintessentially spring and it has been such a gift. And rain! No one told me how much easier it is to garden when you don’t have to constantly water your seedlings! Y’all everything is growing and…
Since we weaned Buttercup, Mabel’s most recent calf, we have been bringing in the milk pail plenty full, twice a day. Over the last couple of months we have watched the cream line become increasingly more yellow as the grass has started to come up more in the pasture. And now we may be approaching…
To everything there is a season and this is about the most beautiful time of year around these parts. Baby lettuce and beet thinnings come together to form the first salad of the spring. The kitchen garden got an extension this year because there is no such thing as too much growing space. The potatoes…
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….
