Posted by Homesteading brings the opportunity for many life lessons. Most of those lessons, in my experience, turn out to be insights into the origins of random phrases I have heard while growing up in the Deep South. The first one that comes to mind is, “Running around like a chicken with its head cut off.” Let…Read more »
Posted by Almost 3 years have passed since I last shared my writing. A lot of life has happened in that time around here, and as time progresses I will share some of those stories. Truth is, writing is my go-to form of artistic expression. However, any attempts to share over the last space in time ended…Read more »
Posted by Hello, everyone! This is the post that I promised to my friends and family on Facebook. Here, we enter the story of how the pigs are gone from our little homestead. Do you ever have those projects that are doomed from the start? This may have been that endeavor for us, but all things went…Read more »
Posted by We have recently delved back into the realm of hosting events on our little homestead. We have not done much of that since we moved to our forever home during the era of quarantines. When we have a group of people coming, I break out the old faithful drip coffee pot. (At least until I…Read more »
Posted by During the recent storms that ripped through Alabama, I found myself hunkered down in our basement. We have unreliable internet in normal weather, so when storms came our internet was virtually useless. This reality is one of the only things that I dislike about being further out into the country. Until recently, storms do not…Read more »
Posted by The only “farm” animals on our little fledgling homestead right now are those rough, stinky pigs. I have been inordinately slow coming around to liking those animals. They are quite different from rabbits and chickens, dogs and cats. These animals are the only ones I have had on our property so far, and pigs…Read more »
Posted by Sometimes I can be a bit of a perfectionist. In my estimation, perfectionism has a happy side and a morose side; often, I find myself sucked into the latter. On the happy side, perfectionism enables us to create quality results in whatever we are doing. The morose side leads to a depressive attitude that…Read more »
Posted by Tractor Supply has chicks! My heart is happy. We went to two different cities to find a store that still had a few in stock. Bret knew it was a bad idea, but I NEEDED to go see them. The kids’ eyes lit up as much as mine did when we walked through the…Read more »
Posted by February’s homestead goal was to build raised beds for my kitchen garden. My dream for a homestead vegetable garden was to be able to walk right outside my kitchen door to an abundance of flowers, herbs, and veggies ready to grab at a moment’s notice when it was time to prepare a meal for…Read more »
Posted by My bread machine is one of my favorite kitchen tools, even though I use it mostly to make pizza dough. Most often, I use the bread machine for the entire dough making process of whatever bread-type item I am making, then do the actual baking in the oven. I have tried multiple bread recipes, different…Read more »
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