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.
We didn’t really get a lot of homesteading done today. Some friends invited us out to their Lakehouse for the day, so after school was done and headed out there for the afternoon and had a great time except for Seppi. For the last two years, Deedee and Papa have been taking the girls peach… Continue reading Peach Picking 2023
Busy day, yesterday. Daddy, Seppi and Papa hooked up the trailer to Papa's big truck and drove south to Adna. We bought some straw bales from the same lady we bought them from last year. Don't go without Seppi! Of course, nothing ever goes quite smoothly. The jack on the trailer was broken so we… Continue reading The Man Trip
It has turned cool and rainy this week. Time to get the onions out of the ground so they can dry out. Mommy and Seppi and Ellie pulled them and put them on shelves in the shop. Good harvest this year, most of them a pretty large size. We should get a greenhouse so we… Continue reading Onions as big as your head
Got a few hours in the pasture this afternoon after work. Cool day, with a fine, soft drizzle, just the sort to soak in slowly over the course of a night. Not ideal weather for setting fence posts, but when you have the time and the materials, you have to do the work. We drilled… Continue reading Setting fence posts
A very productive day of garden yesterday. All kinds of harvesting going on. Tomato yield has been improving, we were able to get four quarts of sauce tomatoes in the freezer. We had about twice that many with end rot on them, so we are going to treat them with calcium again as soon as… Continue reading ‘Maters and Corns and Beans, Oh my!
We sent the kids out to pick tomatoes yesterday. I guess you could call this mission success. And ten minutes later… “Daddy, let me in, I picked some more!” Oh, and a bunch of grapes that they were Not supposed to pick, but somehow it got picked anyway. So… Anyone want some snacking tomatoes?
Some friends gave us a rooster last weekend. Handsome feller, but so far hasn’t really meshed with the gang, so to speak. But onto more important news, we have now had the geese in the paddock with the meat birds for two nights, and have had the same count of meat birds both mornings. It… Continue reading Geese on Guard
Felt compelled to scribble this out on a blank sheet of paper this morning before the kids got up. Wasn’t sure why at the time, figured it out since then.
What do you do when you have leftover mashed potatoes? Obviously, you make donuts. Mommy and the girls made the dough yesterday, while the menfolk were running errands and mending fences. Today after mass, she pulled it out of the refrigerator and cut it into circles. We don’t have a donut cutter, so she just… Continue reading Mashed potato donuts
As we mentioned in our last chicken post, we did get the meat birds out on past year. We have a few critiques thus far. Let’s just say the system has pros and cons. First the pros: Super easy to do the chores. Just put the feed in the feeder put the water in the… Continue reading Apparently the meat birds are tasty
Little Farm in the Big City 