Posted in Country Life, Family, Food, Homesteading on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
One day each year I go to bed at night hoping that I’ll never see another peach again in my life. Thankfully it’s only one night each year and it’s always the result of my peach jam-making, freezing marathon each spring. Unlike the strawberries, the peaches come all at once because dh brings them home [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family, Homesteading on Saturday, 14 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bring home this:
And the man of the house is very likely to bring home this:
Sadly, all three of these beautiful animals have been abandoned in our community. We are concerned that the puppy may be lost. He is a beautiful black lab and has had his dew (sp?) claws removed. There was also a cocker [...]
Posted in Country Life, Family, Food, Gardening, Homesteading, Sustainable Living on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 | No Comments »
The day started out with a strawberry picking marathon. We picked about two gallons and it looks like this will be our last major harvest this year. Two things in life make me REALLY sad. The last strawberry in the spring and the last tomato in the fall. At least right [...]
Posted in Food, Gardening, Homesteading, Sustainable Living, World-wide Food Crisis on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 | No Comments »
Lesotho gardens relieve food crisis
As delegates at the UN food summit in Rome tackle concerns over food production, the BBC’s Peter Greste visits Lesotho, one of the countries most at risk from climate change and global food and fuel price rises.
Don’t have stacks of rock around to build the containers? Wondering what needs to [...]
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, 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 Homeschooling, Homesteading, Sustainable Living on Sunday, 16 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back Home Magazine
I stumbled upon this gem completely on accident. It was one of those LLLOOONNNGGG nights in town that I forgot to bring a book. I also happened to have a hankerin’ for a cup of smooth Starbucks coffee. Perfect recipe for a trip to Barnes & Noble. I’d already read Mother Earth News 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, Food, Homesteading on Saturday, 13 October 2007 | 2 Comments »
My friend Lona blogs at Farming in the Shade. She really touched a nerve tonight…
When I chose the name for this blog, it was partly a play on the name of our farm–Shady Side Farm. It was also partly a statement on the decline of farming in America–that somehow a cloud has passed over the [...]
Posted in Country Life, Homesteading on Monday, 8 October 2007 | No Comments »
WHUHCHOO LOOKIN’ AT?
Posted in Homesteading on Friday, 21 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is Bob.
In this picture he is doing his job. Evidently, my presence was threatening so he called his hens back into the coop. Then he fluffed up his feathers and flapped his wings at me.
There is also evidence that he is doing his job in the incubator. Now I just have to hope that [...]
Posted in Family, Homesteading, Random Thoughts on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
At our little homestead lives:
A rooster named Bob.
AND
A boy named Rooster.
