Mornings begin with Mabel, her big brown eyes pushing us out of slumber and into the barn to fill her feed box. I heat up water, take a few sips of coffee, grab Joshie, and hand Stewart the milking supplies as he heads out the door. We fill her feed box and give Stan some…
I tend to paralyze easily when something seems like a large undertaking. Before I gave it a try, cheesemaking was like this for me. Now we have a couple of simple goat milk cheeses I make and it seems crazy how easy that is. This also happened to me last week when Annie and I decided to clean…
I am sitting in our new office, which is really just the location in the old cabin where our bed used to be. It’s 4:00 p.m. on July 31st here in Central Texas, the girls are napping, and I am not sweating. I’m not sweating because it’s only 80 degrees. I know that doesn’t sound…
Lately :: a brief smattering of what’s been happening here on the homestead and our other content from around the web. Stewart spent some time working on the formatting of this new book, Pennsylvania. I’ve been reading it as I can now that it’s in its full, beautiful novel form and am almost done. As…
