This weekend I learned more about wielding a ultility knife, a crowbar, and caulking than I ever anticipated in these early weeks of our time on the homestead. When we bought the house–which is about 60 years old–we knew that we wanted to replace the carpet in the bathroom and completely remodel the guest bathroom. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘homesteading’
11 Dec
Day by Day
This week has been an eventful one. After the snowstorm, my sickness just kept going downhill. For the first time since I had mono, I just couldn’t fight it off without help. I think a lot of it had to do with lots of stress and little sleep–stuff that I can usually let roll off [...]
4 Dec
It’s Official
Papers have been signed, funding has been recorded. We are the official owners of a little homestead in the country.
Not surprisingly, I have become fairly sick. I have done pretty well this year handling stress, but I think this experience might have brought about one day too many of anxiety. So, with a couple of [...]
3 Dec
We Made It!
Move in day was last Friday. Well, technically, I suppose it turned out only to be move out day. At 7am, we picked up the truck, only to realize it was too small. I don’t know who from the UHaul website decided that a 3 bedroom house could fit into a 17′ truck, but it definitely wasn’t [...]
31 Oct
A Cautious Hope
It makes me nervous to actually write the words…dare I say it? We’re in escrow! This is the northward view from our new house(!), which we’ll hopefully be able to truly call our own in a little over a month. The air vent you see in the bottom right is on the roof of the root [...]
27 Oct
Still Dreaming
Our dream of a true homestead may be closer than we ever could have anticipated. I’ll post more when we know more, but for now, we’re saying some extra prayers.
13 Oct
Compost Fun
I realize I haven’t written on some of our homesteading activities in a while. We’ve been continuing along with our homesteading fun, including Robert’s latest love….pickling. But pickling will have to wait for another time. Today I want to talk a little bit about our adventures in composting. It’s easier than you think!
Above you see [...]
13 Aug
Garden Party
Here are the long awaited pictures of our garden, planted on our anniversary. My how it’s grown! No, the lettuce has not mutated into mini-trees; we’re letting two of the lettuce plants go to seed so we can use the seeds for next season. I couldn’t believe that lettuce could grow so tall! When it [...]
9 Aug
Finished Product
Picture of the second quilt, as promised. Notice the embroidered patch at the bottom left hand corner. This one made me happy because it turned out super fluffy and super soft. Today my second labor of love was given to its proud new owner, a one-year-old boy…and it was filled with prayers and hopes for [...]
6 Aug
Walking the Talk…As Well As We Can
I’ve gotten a few questions about the status of some of the things I’ve posted about, so here’s a quick update:
The Garden: The garden is doing great! We’ve been harvesting lettuce for our own salads and really loving it. We’ve let a couple of stalks bolt so they can go to seed–hopefully we’ll be able [...]
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