There are a lot of days when it just doesn’t seem worth it. On some days, I genuinely wonder why we don’t buy milk in jugs from the store and get packaged meals a couple of times a week. Then, this past Monday happened. All three of the boys had dentist appointments. I always dread taking them, not because they’re poorly behaved (they’re always very well behaved at the dentist), but because somebody always, ALWAYS, has cavities. I remember the…
We hit record lows this weekend. Temperatures in the teens before we’ve even hit Thanksgiving is NOT my idea of a good time. Between the shorter days and the bitter cold, I’d kind of like to channel my inner brown bear and go into hibernation. Although hibernation isn’t actually a practical option for humans, we’ve recently discovered something called ‘Hygge’. (I haven’t a clue how to pronounce it, since we’ve only ever read about it.) Essentially, it’s a Danish concept…
Yesterday was Steve’s day off. For some, a day off means leisure time, but around here it means playing catch-up! Steve and the boys harvested the potatoes and rototilled the soil. We’re hoping to have some success with a winter garden–we will be using hoop houses to extend the growing season in three of our boxes, and will be planting cabbage, carrots, spinach, and garlic (although the garlic is a fall bulb that won’t be ready until next year). While…
Steve and I read a lot of blogs and belong to quite a few online groups and forums related to homesteading. Interestingly, only a few of them mention foraging. I don’t know why more people don’t take advantage of foraging. Maybe it makes people think of spending hours in the woods, searching out roots and odd greens, or invokes images those guys on Survivor eating bugs and half rotten fruit? In reality, it just means picking food from an uncultivated…
This year’s garden has been pretty sorry. It’s our first year with a garden, and as we’ve mentioned, the rain gave us quite the set back. Almost nothing of what we planned made it into the ground, and what did go in was, well, just off a bit. The broccoli turned out kind of ok. We got a couple of little broccoli florets (seriously, they can’t even be described as heads) that were tasty, but that’s about all we can…