During this pandemic, a lot of people are now working from home, but some are still working from the office. If that is the case they are risking their health and wondering how they can stay healthy then we might just be able to help you. In our...
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DON’T keep a distance Feeling aggressive? Short-tempered? Straight angry? You probably need to touch someone, and that can be REAL tricky right now. Being able to touch which is the thing we’re avoiding most right now may have a major...
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“Firewood warms you twice, once when you cut it and again when you burn it.” some lumberjack The start of our woodstove At the end of this summer, we got a wood stove for heating the house. It has been a learning adventure. There is a...
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Death on the Homestead New life is so much more fun to post about, but in reality all things aren’t just joy. There has to be sorrow, and we’ve experienced an eye-opening amount of that as well since we’ve been on this...
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Birthdays Can Be Treacherous We’re mid-birthday-month right now. Naomi and I have birthdays at the beginning of October, which involved nearly a week’s worth of festivities this year, and Leviah’s is at the end of the month...
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Some months later… This blog has not become what I’d expected since we moved to our new homestead. It has been a little desolate these last few months. As I’ve confessed before, it’s such a daunting thing to wrap my head...
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I’ll likely never feel like we have homeschooling all figured out. People sometimes ask me for advice, or what we do, or how we make it work…well, I’m always intimidated by these questions. Someday, when everyone has grown...
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Permaculture’s hugelkultur We’re making an effort to embrace and learn permaculture systems by incorporating them in our homestead as much as possible. Permaculture embraces ways that work with nature, not against–utilizes the...
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Putting up Goat Fence on Hilly Wooded Terrain. In the last few weeks it’s been all about the fence. We’re about ready for some goats, and for their sake the fence has to be just right–from what we’ve read they think like...
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The easy Esther Dress for little girls. These dresses couldn’t be simpler! I can’t believe we hadn’t tried them before. The girls have been prancing around in them as much as possible all week, and are anxious to show them off...
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Our Spring Planting and Planning is well underway. Well it’s about as cold as it ever is in our region, some nights in the 20s, and a little snow too. But, thanks to our little greenhouse and child labor we’ve got our spring garden...
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I suppose ‘getting settled’ time is over. Though, it’s hard for me to imagine a time in which our lives will calm back down. We’re getting used to our new home, but there is SO much to do, SO many possibilities, it’s...
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