Posted in easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, recipes, redneck moments, tagged easily amused, farm life, personal, recipes on August 5, 2008 | 17 Comments »
When I was little, I was always impatient with Fred Flintstone because when the cat threw him out for the night, he pounded on the door to have Wilma let him in, when he could have easily climbed in the window, because there was NO GLASS! I always dreamed that I would marry someone like Roger [...]
Posted in canning, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, personal, redneck moments, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, redneck moments on August 2, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I love that song, Just Shut Up and Drive. I find that one in my head a lot. But, sometimes it has to be the homestead version… .
It’s no secret I like to can. Or put up food. It is comforting to me and I like the process. But, being a claustrophobic farmgirl tomboy, I [...]
Posted in easily amused, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged farm life, personal on July 26, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Anyone could see the road that they walk on, is paved in gold.
It’s always summer, they’ll never get cold.
They’ll never get hungry, they’ll never get old and gray…” from The Way, by Fastball
Or so we thought.
Today is our 30th anniversary of sorts. We’ve been together for 30 years, but only married 17. Why such a [...]
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed on July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Linda wanted to see Henry’s other asset, so here it is.
That is definitely a standing rump roast! Nice dapples there you!! When the cows are slick in the summer, their dapples look like maple leaves, instead of round like horses dapples.
Naptime.
I’m trying to get my hay post done, and I have to do an anniversary [...]
Posted in agriculture, biodynamic farming, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, farm life, greenhouse, seed saving, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on July 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Poor Farnsworth, I know how he feels - I’ve got a bad case of weeds too! Some are by my own hand, which, when they present themselves, make the light bulb go on (sometimes.)
I won’t take the blame for these weedy garlic rows. Overwintering alliums are hard to keep weed free, since they span two [...]
Posted in agriculture, easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, personal, tagged agriculture, Australian Shepherds, easily amused, farm dogs, farm life on July 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This post is for dog lovers.
My baby is one today. It’s been a fun year, we had no idea who this guy was, that we brought into our lives last September. He was just #8, my husband picked him out from several pictures that the breeder emailed us.
pup # 8
A wagon load of cuties, I [...]
Posted in easily amused, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife, tagged embroidery, farm life, lost skills, personal, quilting, wildlife on July 9, 2008 | 13 Comments »
When I take note of my surroundings I usually have a ulterior motive…
Juvenile Pileated woodpecker
Wild Ginger
Commom Mullien
Cleavers
Damsel fly
Rare Maninja flower ( I made this one up)
Embroidery is the first needlework skill I learned as a child. I made this quilt as a gift for a friend to mark her graduation from medical school. To make [...]
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments, tagged early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As promised…
Black walnut hub, cherry spokes.
Tool kit - fuses, and charges.
Loading the charge. 4 ounces, RS - FFG equivalent.
Tamping the charge.
Skull and crossed pipe wrenches.
Lit fuse.
Target - 100 yards.
One snooker ball sized hole. Three ball in the side pocket!
Looking back at the cannon.
The smoking gun.
I stayed at the house with the dogs, and got some work [...]
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, scratch cooking, tagged early farm life, farm life, frugality, recipes, scratch cooking, unschooling on May 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I just wanted to share a few recipes that keep the father here, in a good mood.
Here is a recipe for Rhubarb Sherbet that utilizes a base that can be frozen during times of abundance and then made up as needed. This is a popular recipe at our house, on Father’s Day.
RHUBARB SHERBET from Cooking [...]
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged farm kids, farm life, history, personal, quilts, unschooling on May 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I don’t want to mess up my kid. I know, it may be too late already, but at least I’m aware of the potential of that happening. I think. **Warning, this is a post-ovulation post, meaning it’s sure to be emotional, written on a day, that if I hear a song like Seminole Wind , I start [...]
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, personal, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, easily amused, family cow, farm life, personal on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Jetta told me this morning if I didn’t wear this to the barn, she would try to have her calf tonight.
I guess since I don’t wear much jewelry anyway, I can promise this.
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged Belly Acres (rant), easily amused, farm kids, farm life, personal, pigs, redneck moments, scenery on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We went on our excellent adventure yesterday. Even though we have been cutting back on grain eating animals, we still haven’t weaned ourselves off of pork. Normally, we bought 7 -10 weaners and would use them to work our compost piles, or to turn the deep bedding in our feeding sheds. Re-thinking this portion of [...]
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, milk cow, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse, pastured poultry, vegetable gardening, wildlife, zero mile foodshed on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
She has to - she can’t deal with her owner anymore! I broke down and called the vet yesterday, and he gave me several reasons that I shouldn’t worry about the calf.
• The first baby can come at anytime.
• The bull, (whom we only know as Willy) may throw late calves.
• The owner can’t [...]
Posted in agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, early farm life, family cow, farm life, frugality, grow your own food, over-winter vegetables, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That is what our garden is - just your basic old vegetable garden. Full of workhorses and not too many gourmet delicacies. It feeds us year-round though, but you won’t find low performers in our garden more than a year, or two at most.
Before the rain on Tuesday, we planted 50# of potatoes. I plant the [...]
Posted in cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, milk cow, tagged cattle, family cow, farm dogs, farm life on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jetta is keeping her hocks together still, but her bag is starting to look like it can’t get any bigger. But it will - this is mostly congestion, but her udder looks nice.
Realizing I’m low on groceries, it’s raining, and library books are due today, we are going to town. Our co-op that we buy [...]
Cinnabar moth larvae eating Tansy Ragwort