They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
By Evie. My dad and I are making an Advent Wreath. My dad is cutting out candles. I am cutting out side boards. As you can see the saw is diagonal, but so is the cut. I am screwing the joint in place. Dad is holding the wood in place. OOPS! My dad glued the… Continue reading Our Advent Wreath
This is one of the things we like about the Meishan pigs. They are super friendly. They can be a bit skittish, and don't like to stand still unless they are eating, and they get pretty nosey when they think you are bringing food, but they don't bite or nip, and they don't get aggressive.… Continue reading Friendly Piggies!
It is the day after Christmas. Time to run errands and get caught up on everything. But first, a picture of the sunrise through the Cottonwood’s on this foggy morning. Taken by Evie.
When I was a kid, I hated doing farm chores. They were the same every day, and they took time away from the things I really wanted to be doing, a.k.a., reading books and daydreaming. Now, I love the days when I get to do chores. The simple repetition, the ritual of caring for the… Continue reading Chores
Hey y'all! It's getting towards the end of Advent. Or rather, it is getting toward the middle of the third week of Advent. Unfortunately, due to the vagaries of the calendar, we don't get a fourth week of Advent this year. We basically get 24 hours, from sundown next Saturday until sundown on Sunday. This,… Continue reading Christmas Cookie Extravaganza
It's been a while since we have blogged here. I promise we had a good reason. You see, Kathleen had a pregnancy craving. When she was pregnant with Winnie, that is. Not recently. This was two years ago. She had a craving for Doner, A greek-turkish kebab gyro that can only be found in Berlin.… Continue reading It’s been a minute
He who would organize a farm, plows a furrow in the sea. Abraham Lincoln (probably). Especially a farm with kids on it. Nevertheless, we keep trying. By the way, for those with a lot of canning jars, the glassware boxes from uHaul make excellent storage for empty jars (standard quarts and pints, not half gallons… Continue reading Organization
For supper today we had country style ribs from our pigs, cooked in our own barbecue sauce (ours, meaning Kathleen made it and canned it, not that we grew it ourselves), with butternut squash and green beans from our garden. Helping herself to some raw garlic (from our garden) which she chewed up and swallowed.… Continue reading Our Food
Last week we went "Shopping" in the shop, and Seppi picked out a nice, Seppi-sized pumpkin, because he wanted to make Pumpkin Muffins. Monday morning, bright and early, he brought his pumpkin upstairs from the garage, to make pumpkin something. Right now. He seemed oblivious to the fact that one does not simply cut the… Continue reading I want pumpkin something… Now!
Little Farm in the Big City 