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.
This was not a very restful weekend. We try very hard to make Sunday a day of rest, and avoid any weekday work. Unfortunately, the world is not so oriented. It was a drill weekend, so Daddy was off doing army stuff. The kids took the opportunity to be unusually rambunctious. The baby decided not… Continue reading Millions of peaches
It has been a crazy busy and stressful week/weekend/week so far. Too much going on. Quick update, the house garden is completely taken out except for the tomatoes. One clearing the beds we found we had an issue with tree roots. There’s a large old maple in the yard, and apparently, when we extended the… Continue reading Sowing Oats
Busy day in the garden today. Still having issues with blossom end rot on the tomatoes, and then, with all the rain we’ve gotten for the last two days a bunch of them are starting to split. Pigs made out like bandits. Still several quarts worth saving. Ellie washed them and we cored them to… Continue reading I been picking beans
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
Little Farm in the Big City 