After a full day slaving over the evaporator (umm, not really, I more or less just sat there), I can say that homemade maple syrup is worth it. It has a much rounder, whole flavor than any syrup I’ve ever tasted. Plus, after we brought it in from outside to finish it on the stove, the whole house was filled with the delicious aroma of maple. (And then I burnt two eggs and everything just smelled acrid. Go figure.) Anyway, I shared…
I’ll be candid with you, it was a toss up for the title of this post between ‘Caught Unprepared’ and ‘What Do You Mean You Don’t Sell Handtools?’ I vacillated back and forth and could not decide, so you are left with the thoroughly uncreative ‘First Maple Sugaring Season.’ The two parts of the story are so well intertwined that it would be a disservice to give one the title as though the other part were some how less relevant. Cut…
It’s become evident that the vast majority of our visitors from Google prefer the pages dedicated to our French Angora Rabbits over any other topic that we bring up here. I don’t post about them as much as I would like to, which is a shame because they really are a perfect homesteading animal for small-scale farming. Really, I don’t know why they aren’t more popular. Perhaps it’s all those books and websites out there that purport that if you don’t follow…
I have to take a quick moment to just say: I love these darn ducks. Steve doesn’t care for them, and he definitely hasn’t kept his sentiments to himself. But before you start worrying that the poor ducks are are waddling around unloved and unappreciated, don’t, because I think they’re my favorite animals around here. And what’s not to love? Let’s start with the way that they’re always playing, especially when there’s water around: Then there’s the fact that in…
After the last homeschooling post, you may be wondering why we’ve already chosen curriculum for next year when it’s only January. Do you really need to get it figured out 8 months ahead of time? Well, there are a couple of reasons we’re looking at choices now. The first is that since every curriculum is different, there will be pieces (especially in math) that we may not have worked on with our current curriculum but were already covered in the 1st grade level of…