I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that I have anything against them, it’s just not my style. I don’t do well weaning myself into change or waiting for January 1st to Do something different. I have to do things cold turkey or not at all. That said, there are several things that I’ve been ruminating* on that have beget some goals that we’d like to see accomplished in 2017. So, in no particular order, here are our end of…
Merry Christmas from our family! We hope that tomorrow brings peace, joy and the enjoyment of family and friends. Thank you for following us – we’ll be back on next week! God bless,
For just a minute, I’m going to step outside of what we normally talk about to post about this blog itself. See, we had that first post, but we didn’t establish much. Although you may have been able to guess what our aim is by posting online, we have yet to define one big thing. The premise. Ok, yes, it’s about homesteading. It’s about producing our own food. It’s about walking out when it’s 2º Fahrenheit and sloshing water down your…
Our French Angora rabbits haven’t been receiving any attention on the blog lately in favor of other matters. Now we have some shenanigans to report: Hester had a pearl. No joke, the Scarlet Letter is playing out in our rabbitry. To recap, we decided to have a literary theme in naming our rabbits. It started with Hester, a self black doe whose owner had named everyone in her litter after characters from the Scarlet Letter. It seemed appropriate to carry on the theme…
We’ve had a lot of settling in to do this past week. Most everything has gone smoothly, but we did experience some heartbreaks as well. Let’s start with the goats. They’re adjusting nicely and are wonderful creatures. The rabbits could care less whether or not we’re around (except for food time), and the ducks would rather be left to their own devices. Both of these goats are affectionate and love our attention. There’s been some pushing between them as dominance is asserted…