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 had a bit of an adventure on Monday. During the night there was a pretty significant wind storm, and it knocked out power to our house, and most of the block, with localized power outages in patches throughout the area. So we were forced to Low-Tech it all morning long. As you can guess,… Continue reading Low Tech Day!
We do not allow ourselves leisure so that we will be able to work better. We work so that we will be able to be at leisure. (Paraphrase of Josef Pieper, "Leisure, the basis of culture.") We got home from Mass and told the girls to change out of their church clothes into their relaxing… Continue reading A Quiet Sunday
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family! With yesterdays turkey carcass simmering on the stove with onions, carrots, celery and bay leaves, the house is filled with the smell of fresh turkey stock. Later today I will be straining and canning this up for use later use in soups. The… Continue reading Gobble Gobble!
He’s got his hammer in his tool pants They are hiding behind enemy lines Such a good big sister These are their invisibility shields
Punctuation, it matters. Anyway… The jack on the horse trailer bit the dust on our last trip when we went down to pick up straw bales. Finally got around to replacing it today. Not all jobs on the farm are big jobs. Some are perfect jobs for a little man to help. And that’s that,… Continue reading New trailer, jack!
The big wet and rainy is here. The days of beautiful weather are behind us. We may get one or two here in there, but from now on, it is pretty much just rain until next spring. After the heavy, homeschool lift, and baking and laundry and dishes are done for the morning, and errands… Continue reading Rainy day in the shop
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
Little Farm in the Big City 