Ten years…. TEN! In some ways it seems like it’s only been a short while – in others it feels like it was never any different. I don’t know that either of us saw where we would end up after 10 years. A large family, a big old yellow farmhouse and a couple of chickens …. that was the dream picture. I don’t suppose we’re far off the mark, but boy was there a lot in there amongst all! 4…
We did a decent job reaching our goals last year in 2017. For 2018? Not so much. I considered not even talking about how well we’d done this past year since things fell so far off the mark. But… half of the point of this blog is our own accountability. So, here’s how we did (or, rather, didn’t do): No bees Virtually no homemade cheese Garden? Erm, sort of No online shop No ancient grains, although plenty of all natural…
It’s been a busy few weeks leading up to Christmas here! We’ve had most of our shopping done since the beginning of the month, but we’ve had much more to complete. Each boy got a hand knit sweater for Christmas as well as a hand knit hat, and we’ve dabbled in making a few homemade Christmas dishes that we haven’t before, including panettone (a traditional Italian yeast-cake), fruitcake and mincemeat pies. While I’ve always liked panettone, I’ve always had a…
We haven’t taken on many new projects as of late; as I wrote about recently our focus has shifted to doing fewer things well. We are continuing to milk the goats, tend the chickens and rabbits, and homeschool. We also homestead in other ‘little’ ways. We cook from scratch, we knit and sew, we cut our boys’ hair ourselves …. anything where you’re not hiring someone out or buying something pre-made is certainly homesteading. Rachel has been a rockstar in…
That’s a very good question – we’ve been involved in so much that I’m not even sure what we’ve been up to. August flew by so fast and was such a blur that I can’t confidently say that August happened. Yet as it is Labor Day weekend I have to come to the conclusion that it must have. I feel like we’ve accomplished nothing, yet I know that is not true – we have done a TON! We’ve had one…