Posted by in Homestead Life, Parenting Helloooooooooo!!! Long time, no blog. 🙂 We’ve been busy here on the homestead, in some very unexpected ways. This summer had the usual homestead activities, picking cabbage, cucumbers and kale; gathering eggs; making nettle wine, etc. But we were also crazy busy with some serious home renovation projects. The house has needed some upgrades (new…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life, Parenting Summer is the best, amiright?! Sunshine, warm breezes, hammocks (they’re nice to look at, even if I don’t have time to swing on them), grass under bare toes – and ICE CREAM! I don’t have much of a sweet tooth (I’m more a “eat-a-whole-bag-of-tortilla-chips” kinda girl), and don’t care overly much for dairy products, but…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life, Parenting When you have littles, “the weekend” takes on a completely different meaning. Back in my single days (or dating days), “the weekend” meant a break from work, the option to sleep in, meeting up with friends, mimosa brunches, paddling on the river, bike rides, snowshoeing, whatever the season offered. It was dreamy. Weekends ruled. Weekends…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life, Parenting, Social, Uncategorized Lately it seems every time I start a blog post, I’m immediately apologizing for how long it’s been since the last one. I started this blog as an outlet, as a way of connecting with a virtual audience in my post-Facebook (previous post: Life after Facebook), remote-living existence. But I’ve struggled with finding a consistent…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life We don’t like to waste food in our house. (We seem to waste plenty of other things: money, energy, time – but not food). So the other day, when I was done roasting and simmering some beef bones for homemade bone broth, I began wondering whether I might be able to process the bones further…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life Guess what? Chicken butt! My kids love that joke. (Heck, so do I.) But really – guess what? CHICKEN BUTT!!!!! AAAARGH this has been A WEEK OF CHICKEN BUTT. It started a few weeks ago, one of our hens (a Barred Rock, if it matters) developed a butt (for the lack of a better term…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life, Parenting, Social (This post is dedicated to my Former-Stepmother-Turned-Bosom-Buddy Beth who parties like a rock star with her Mardi Gras Krewe every year and is basically the coolest person I know.) I don’t go to Mardi Gras. Though probably someday I will. But I do live in a house filled with beads, where somebody is always yelling…Read more »
