Our poor chickens need a house. They had a house that we borrowed from a neighbor, but it was really too small and had no nest boxes and no good access to the interior except through the chicken door which is a bit small and nasty for adults, and although not too small, it’s just […]
The Best Part of Preserving Cherries
Okay, I have no words here except that this wasn’t even half the mess my kitchen saw that day! I guess you just don’t notice it so much when you’re working with something light colored like peaches . . . oh yeah, and that was the best my hands looked all day. Keep preparing! Angela […]
Super Short Check In and Garden Update
I am not a super gardener. I am happy when things grow that don’t require a lot of effort on my part. I suppose when my kids are grown and I need something to nurture, my garden will get the effort it really needs. Anyway, the garden is still alive, and here’s a few things […]
Piggies, Camping, and Albino Corn???
A quick one today to let you all know I’m still alive. I have lots to post about and no time to do it–other things on the burner first, so I’ll have to do a real catch up post when I’ve got a little time. We’ve built a pig pen and remodeled a shack that […]
Freezing Spinach
I had some spinach in the garden that was still green when I cleaned out the garden last year, so I left it in just to see what it would do. Come to find out that spinach is a biennial, so it’s perfectly happy to live through the winter if it’s not too harsh of […]
Amazing
Couple of quick chicken updates. The kids and I went out last evening to toss the chickens in their house (the kids actually really enjoy this) and were shocked to find them all already IN the house (with the door still open). Strange. The kids were sure dad had snuck out before us and put […]
Free Chickens!
No, I’m not giving chickens away–sorry. They’ve just been freed from their tool box and are now happily peeping about their big new yard. Sweet husband took most of last week off to use up some excess vacation time before he lost it and we were busy in the yard and garden most every day […]
Vehicle Emergency Kit
Here’s a little kit I put together a while back for my vehicle. And yes, it was in the suburban when I had the flat tire, so if it had happened somewhere where Incident Management Team was not available to fix my jack issue, I would not have died waiting for my sweet husband to […]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Doctor–Lessons Learned from Being Half Prepared
I was almost too embarassed to post what happened to me yesterday, but not quite, because it’s actually kind of funny and there are some fantastic lessons to be learned which hopefully you will be able to learn from my experience and not your own. Let me give you a little background. I had a […]
The Chicks Plot Their Escape . . . And So Do We
I feel like I’ve been slacking a bit on posting lately, but to be honest with you, I don’t know how any of you have time to read my posts anyway! Spring is in full force here with the garden, yard work, Tball, school programs, field trips, someone needs a lunch packed, someone else needs […]
