Around the Farm
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. We are slowly plugging away at all the to-dos on the property; readying homes for goats, chickens, ducks, bees, fish and...
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Busy as the Bees
someone turned 8 since the last post. When I take long breaks from the blog I get nervous about what to say next. Like, it’d better be important, meaty and enthralling or the people of the e-verse will wonder why I’d bothered...
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Winner! & Our Appliance Search is Done
Winner of the book giveaway, comment #34: MamaWestWind said… Awesome! We love these books and have a couple more to collect yet. Thanks so much! Thanks everyone for entering! I encourage you all to run off and read some of Reg...
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More than Just a House
It’s easy to get caught up in the house right now. So much to do–the list keeps growing, and our wallet keeps thinning…anyway, I need a little break from that. So, I’ll share a bit about the outside–which is what...
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Clear Eyes, Clean Heart…
If you haven’t watched every season of Friday Night Lights I suggest you do. Now. I’m not sure why a drama about a high school football team hit so close to home for me, but you just can’t help but root for the team, for the...
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Head spinning right round, right round
Thanks for all the supportive comments on the last post, and the emails and messages and hugs. It means so much to us. We took a short long trip. In other words, we drove far and didn’t stay long enough. My family comes from NW Pennsylvania...
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Life is a Bucket Full of Cherries
Cherry picking was a great success! We went to Ayer’s in Cana, Va. It’s about an hour and a half from here, but so beautiful. They were sweet enough to let us in to pick a day early, so we had the orchard nearly to ourselves. Eliza...
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Pennsylvania Dreamin’ on Such a Summer’s Day
the Brown barn in the sunset Here are some pictures from our time in PA. We had such a great time reuniting with family, and the farm. It’s a family farm, to be sure; my mom grew up with dairy cows, but the pastures are full of...
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Around the Honey House
So, we’ve harvested and will be bottling soon. When keeping bees you quickly realize the need for a honey house. What we have is a sticky mess in this ‘honey’ house. It’s mostly clean now, but that’s 4 mops...
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Sheep Shorn, Slippers Felted, Fellowship
The sheep are always fun to visit and it was a much warmer day than last year! Still, there was a chilly breeze that apparently brought us the beautiful weather of today. Even babies are being born already, which serves as a reminder of...
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At it & feeling a smidge rejected.
furrowed & sweaty brow. post-tick removal. We were at the land all day on Sunday & had family there to help us remove some underbrush & really just introduce them to what is our future! There were chain saws, machetes, laupers &...
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we HAVE it!
For those of you on the edge of your seat with regards to our future…we’ve got land! With the help of my inlaws, we are the proud caretakers of 24 acres just south of Homeland Creamery in Liberty, NC. What a real secret I have kept...
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