Quick Catch-Up

So, I’m not very consistent with writing in here. It’s been a hot-minute and figure I should post some sort of quick update before the year is out! ☺ Spring to summer and now into fall (which, for us is trying to be winter w-a-y before I am willing to accept it) - it’s been …

Can I Show You My Succulents?

🙂 LOL! Nothing to see here. No green outside! The grounds are still covered in snow even though we have officially heralded-in spring! But I got an itchy green thumb that is sooooo excited for seedlings, plants, flowers, veggies, and garden-life in general! Gosh, what a l-o-n-g drawn out winter this one has been! You …

2022 Sum-Up

Oh 2022... you were a busy one! A good busy! I wanted to write and blog and post... but sitting down to put some words and pictures together was not on the priorities list. Here it is, the end of the year, and feel like I should squeeze something in! 'Thank you cards' are always …

The Coop II – Finished!

Enter: early spring. As soon as the snow had melted off, and getting around in the chicken coop/run area wasn't a muddy nightmare, the exterior was going up/on! **The first journaling of this chicken coop build can be read here: The Coop Chris worked on hand cutting these shingles throughout the winter months. A nice …

Spring is Springing!

First and foremost... happy vernal equinox! It's officially spring and this flip always puts a smile on my face! 🙂 So... Hello Spring! Yay! I also love this wonderful month in general. I'm biased because it’s also my birthday month! It has a deeper meaning to me for: new-ness, fresh-start, new goals/make goals, projects-galore, spring …

Happy New Year

And BIG hugs, thank you, to 2021! We had a good productive year, last year! 🙂 Already?? Yes. It is now considered - last year. It went by fast, even through some of them slow-times (I'm talking long-weekends of butchering meat birds, for example). It can take a few days, maybe a week or so, …

Processing Pork

Our pasture pork season has come to a close. We recently put our Idaho Pasture Pigs into the freezer. Butchering, and processing (cut and wrap/grind and bag) was a weekend event. It starts on Friday and kind-of ends on Sunday; wrapping-up all the 'big' work. The sausage making and/or other various ways of utilizing the …

The Coop

This is the round-up of the coop build! We have been chipping away at this thing most of the spring and summer. The soaring prices of lumber, crazy shortages of what seemed to be 'random' stuff... well, apparently, we weren't the only ones working on homesteading improvements! hahaha 🙂 Besides the (global) obvious and not …

Sum-Up

Here it is... the end of October and fall is in full-swing and I haven't found the time to write in this-here-blog! It has been a bit busy for us this summer and fall. I actually don't know of any summers where we haven't been busy! There is other things going on that isn't just …

The Beets Go On

Beets! We love this little root! It wasn’t always love though. It was sort-of: like. They were okay but not a preferred veg. Growing up - it wasn't something we had very often, and when it did show up on the menu... it was from a can, then over cooked even more, and covered in …