Posted by Our family now has a new home! We have purchased 4.5 acres in Northeast Alabama, and we can’t wait to shower it with love and make it our own. Bret, The Princess, & I have all taken many pictures so we can always look back to remember our starting point, and today we will offer…Read more »
Posted by Being a project-oriented person, I tend to move on to the next idea before the current project is completely resolved. Bret and I balance one another well that way; he thrives on structure and method, which proves a perfect counter to my tendency to bounce from thought to thought randomly. One of the ways I…Read more »
Posted by For the last year at our valley house, we had a puppy. Bret searched long and hard to find a livestock guardian dog to ensure that our pup would not have a strong instinctive prey drive for the chickens and rabbits that we had already. Mid-summer 2018, Bret saw an ad for puppies that were…Read more »
Posted by As we approach the hope of a new property soon and of getting back to gardens and animals and flowers and woods, I find myself remembering some of the situations at our valley home that offered the biggest learning opportunities. It has been said that chickens are the gateway animal into farm animals, and we…Read more »
Posted by In October, Bret & I will have been married for 13 years. Our marriage has lasted over a decade, even though we are completely different than the two individuals that stood in the church in front of friends and family to say our “I-do’s.” Bret grew up in the country – as in, 20-30 minutes…Read more »
Posted by We are currently looking for a house. Actually, property would be a better term. You see, Bret and I have always recycled homes. We look for the beat up and abandoned gems, shower them with love and hard work, live in them for a couple of years, and move on to the next one. After…Read more »
Posted by We love flaky biscuits. You know, the ones in the can? Filled with all the ingredients that I’m convinced no one can pronounce? Those are the ones! My favorite three are quite vocal about their opinions of homemade biscuits, too. It has taken over 10 years, but these are the closest I’ve been able to…Read more »
Posted by We were starting the homesteading lifestyle. Over the course of the past year or so, those plans have been temporarily derailed. More on that as we catch up in another post, but for now let’s get straight to the information on my mind today. While pursuing a more sustainable lifestyle, I learned so many little…Read more »
Posted by This past spring, we bought our first chicks. Our last flock was older when we acquired them, and this year was our first experience with chicken babies. They spent their weeks in the brooder, and we transitioned them gradually to the chicken coop area. The same time all this was happening, we had our first…Read more »
Journey Into Freedom 