Posted in Country Life, Random Thoughts on Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not in Southern Kentucky!
Last year by this time I’d already picked enough strawberries to give away quarts to friends and neighbors and to make my first batch of strawberry jam. I picked the first berries of this season on Sunday, only about two quarts. And they weren’t very sweet.
We’ve had the most beautiful weather for [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Saturday, 3 May 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t worry. Dad says he’s so cute we’ll keep him even though he’s a he.
Posted in Country Life, Family, Life, Random Thoughts, Writing on Sunday, 20 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
WAIT! Don’t answer that…. it’s just a rhetorical question!
Have you ever sat in an old cemetery and wondered about the lives of the people buried there? I wish I could peek into a day in one of their lives. Or read a journal. Or see old photographs.
Have you ever imagined a story to go along [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Sunday, 13 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
My nose is running and my eyes are burning… and it’s not just because the flowers are blooming and the trees budding.
Meet Mohawk. Please pray with me that Mohawk is a SHE. First rule of living on a farm… don’t name anything you’re going to eat…
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Wednesday, 9 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
NOT!!!
They are stinky, they make way too much noise, and they get nasty stuff stuck places where *I* have to remove it so they can keep on stinking up the place and making noise. And top of this, I’m horribly allergic. I’ve been kicked off my desk because their box sits right beside it and [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family, Homeschooling, Homesteading on Monday, 7 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s only 9:30am and our day has already gone topsy-turvy.
The phone rang at 7am, call from the post office to come pick up our chicks. The post office 30 minutes away. (I will never understand why we have a Big City address when the County Seat is MUCH closer.) So, that’s an hour. Fortunately, [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Saturday, 5 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last year at the annual Amish auction it was freezing. Folks were excited when the temps were much more friendly today. They forgot one little problem… the rain. We’ve had LOTS of it. And lots of rain makes lots and lots and lots of mud!
Truck after truck got stuck in the mud. Including one particular [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family on Thursday, 27 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
We always joke about buying Princess a Pink Hummer for her 16th birthday. Pink being her choice, a Hummer being our vain attempt to keep her physically safe on these nasty country roads.
But…. *stammer* WHO WOULDA THUNK IT?
Posted in Country Life, Sports on Friday, 14 March 2008 | No Comments »
So much water… soccer fields are still closed. This should have been the third week of the season, but because they’ve yet to play a single game.
Who would have thought we’d be in this place last October when everyone was praying for rain? My prayer now is that the precipitation continues throughout the summer and [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Thursday, 6 March 2008 | No Comments »
Some of you may think this cow looks eerily familiar. Well, that’s because you’ve probably seen her picture on Polly’s blog. This is Gretel the Jersey Cow. Object of my envy.
Reality check! Our lifestyle does not allow the time for me to get up at oh-dark-early to milk and to again milk at sunset. Okay. [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homeschooling, Sports on Monday, 14 January 2008 | No Comments »
I woke up this morning to a small blizzard raging outside. Whoo-hoo! (I thought.) No yearbook, no basketball… stay home and do school.
By the time I got out of the shower, it was flurries. By the time we finished breakfast the sun was shining.
So now I sit here at my computer in this sort of [...]
Posted in Country Life, Food, Sustainable Living on Monday, 24 December 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been composing a post about this very subject in my head for months, but haven’t been able to get the words on paper exactly the way I want. In the meantime, my friend Susan has written a great post on that very subject.
Of particular note:
Every now and then, I think it might be better [...]
Posted in Conservation, Country Life, Sustainable Living on Sunday, 25 November 2007 | 3 Comments »
Otherwise known as the Great American Contradiction.
We act as if we’re personally independent and can make our own decisions our own way; in reality, most people are entirely dependent on others for food, fuel to cook it, water, heat — in short, anything they really must have.
Doris Janzen Longacre, Living More With Less, p. 141
I [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family, Food, Homeschooling on Monday, 5 November 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m afraid that I am a disgrace to my gender. Supposedly, women are supposed to be icons of multitasking. Yea right! “They” forgot to check with me before they wrote that study!
Today’s tasks include bread baking and canning applesauce, in addition to the regular chores and school. Of course, I couldn’t start the bread because [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family, Homeschooling on Thursday, 1 November 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday I realized that my own whining is starting to annoy me. Hmm. Usually an indicator that it’s time to suck it up and stop whining! Yes, I live in the country. Yes, it takes 40 minutes to drive to the gym for basketball practice. Yes, I have to spend two full days a week [...]
