July Vibes

July Vibes

Summer always seems to go quickly around here. No matter what happens, the garden seems to get away from us. We were actually on top of getting things in on time this year, but then our chickens decided they wanted to be free range chickens and started flying out of their pen. Okay, fine, you do you, chickens. Except we realized too late that they were tearing up our garden. Now it looks like it’s another year of just pumpkins…

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Weasleying It

Weasleying It

We came to the conclusion not long ago that somehow we have become the Weasley family. House with extra rooms added on? Yep. Christmas presents that are hand knit? Yep. Chickens in the front yard? Pick-up Quidditch games? Overgrown weedy garden with gnomes? Ghoul upstairs that makes noise when it gets too quiet? Yep, yep, yep and yep. You may think I’m exaggerating on the gnomes and the ghoul, but I’d be willing to debate you on that because our…

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Violet Jelly

Violet Jelly

Homemade bread! Homemade pizza! Homemade jam! Raising chicks! Starting a garden! It’s amazing the pursuits people are turning to with extra time on their hands. Contrary to what popular memes might try to convince you, social media and the grocery store shelves are telling me the world is not just sitting around streaming movies all day. I LOVE that so many people are sharing pictures of their sourdough, seedlings, and cooking triumphs. What I don’t love is not being able…

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Homestead Quarantine

Homestead Quarantine

“You’re all very lucky! With Rachel and I both temporarily out of work due to COVID-19, you’re likely to get a lot more posts than we’ve been providing these last six months or so.” Famous last (well, I suppose first, since they began our previous post) words. Here it is, 34 days since our last posting, and not a single post in the month of April. Quarantine has not turned out to be the extraordinary free time experience we’d thought…

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Which Laying Hens Are Best?

Which Laying Hens Are Best?

You’re all very lucky! With Rachel and I both temporarily out of work due to COVID-19, you’re likely to get a lot more posts than we’ve been providing these last six months or so. At the moment we’re in need of more hens. With the grocery stores cleared out of essentials, I told Rachel that we’ll never again be caught with fewer than 8 laying hens and 2 goats in milk at all times. She readily agreed. So, a few…

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