Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door. If you’d like to share some of your own photos or a blog post, please leave a link in the comments! Bit by bit, Autumn passes, and as the leaves fall, and the sun spends fewer and fewer hours in the sky, we have said goodbye to certain aspects of our carefree summer outdoor living. Our tent, which was our bedroom from late August through October, has now been replaced by a real live (although unfinished) bedroom nook in the house. And the house feels more and more like home, jack o'lanterns on the front stoop, and all. Without electricity or much furniture, we make do with the same small table that … [Read more...]
Out the Front Door
Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door. If you’d like to share some of your own photos or a blog post, please leave a link in the comments! Chickens free range the property. One of our year-old White Rocks, Broody, hatched a chick last week - our first farm-raised animal! A few of the spring chicks are laying, giving us 2-3 eggs per day. It's so nice to once again eat our own eggs! Ella's first lemonade stand. As she is very eager to have a horse, I suggested she start finding ways to earn money to care for said horse. Ella's stand was "pay what you wish", and she made over $6 towards her horse fund! Her lemonade, enjoyed here by our neighbors … [Read more...]
Sometimes…
...Things don't work out exactly as you've planned. Remember this cute perky tent? The one we were just days away from calling home? With a little strong wind and heavy rain, the tent now looks like this: Yes, we are all safe. No, we were not in the tent. We had just climbed into our car to safely wait out the storm, and minutes later watched the tent crumble to the ground in a swirl of wind and rain. Which means that our move to the land is postponed for a wee bit while we figure out the best solution. Buy a new tent? Quickly build a roofed tent platform? Purchase an old RV or bus in which to sleep? One thing is for sure about building a homestead. It is anything but … [Read more...]