Our ducklings arrived today! After a nail biting two days in transit (my tracking from USPS refused to update after they arrived at the first post office, and I was terrified that they were actually stuck in the postal system somewhere, scared and starving) they made it to our local post office safe and sound! 31 birds were shipped to us, and only one didn’t make it. In fact, the others all arrived hale and…
This house will soon be overrun with babies. To start, our French Angora rabbit, Hester, delivered 3 kits last night. As rabbit gestation is so short, you often don’t know until delivery whether or not the animal in question is even pregnant. Yes, there are ways to guess, but nothing is certain. That being said, we never have to wonder with Hester*. She goes from being a relatively sweet and mild-tempered rabbit to Bunzilla the last week leading up to delivery. This is…
My first blog post was going to be about homesteading with kids. But I wrote and erased two posts, and couldn’t quite seem to find the words to say exactly what it’s been like trying to pursue a simpler life with little ones. Since “they” say that a picture is worth a thousand words, here is my one thousand (and sixty eight) word post to sum it up.
If you like to laugh at the expense of foolish couples who: are looking to live off the land with no prior learnings think that book smarts without practical experience might, in some way, qualify them for work in the field like to dive into things without ‘starting small’ and expect a favorable outcome recently graduated from ‘Google It University’… … then you’ve probably come to the right place. To start, we moved into what I affectionately call a Dollhouse….