Homesteading

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Saturday

Jack made us one of his favorite Mexican breakfasts. Letting the horses out. Here’s a typical Saturday for us. Helping

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Fire

This little fire raised the house temperature five degrees. I love our wood burning stove! The colder-than-normal winter last year

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We’re All Friends

Raven trying to get Hercules to scratch her tummy. I think we’ve finally reached equilibrium on the farm: all the

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Burn Baby, Burn

One of the perpetrators. No hair, thin body, no barbed stinger: a yellowjacket I was innocently mowing the yard and

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Little Hogs

Snow enjoying some uneaten spaghetti. Though I always have thought it would be fun to have a pig rooting around

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Wild Raspberries

The raspberries are just getting started… If we weren’t blessed enough with wild asparagus, cherries, grapes, apples, honey, hickory nuts, plums

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Swarm

Yep. Those are ALL bees. Just as we were getting ready to leave, I was powdering my nose when Evie

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Cherry Picking

I really want some cherry trees on our property… If there’s one skill I’m not good at, it’s bartering. It’s

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Looking Ahead

Though I’m sometimes in denial, we’re already looking ahead to winter. The horses galloped over to take a look but

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Look Who Showed Up

Look who showed up! It seemed like only yesterday they were just an egg sack! Since I finished mowing faster than

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Wild Asparagus

I didn’t notice the asparagus growing until it was big and bushy, ready to drop its seeds. Raven and I

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