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A Lemon of a Barn
To the right, the original 1865 house we use for storage, in the middle is our current feed shed, and in the foreground is the first two loads of the old machine shed being organized into piles for the...
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The Meaning of "Chores"
When I was ten, I had choresto do before we indulged in any fun stuff. In the evening there was a dog to be fed and supper dishes to either wash or dry. In the morning we made our beds and picked up...
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The GOOD, but not the bad or the ugly.
Look at me posting two days in a row! Just who do I think I am?!? Motivated. I am motivated. To be more positive in my thinking. Sure, call it denial. Today, it's working for me. Jenn, over at Coffee...
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Clouds in My Coffee
For years, when Carly Simon sang her song, "You're so Vain" I thought she was saying grounds in my coffee. That makes sense, right? And I'd sing it loudly that way, even though my sister Mary tried...
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Half a Barn is Better Than No Barn
The damage has been calculated and the guy we paid to tear down an old machine shed, has been compensated. He delivered about half a barn, after all the damage he did tearing it down, and so he was...
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Mow is Me
This is an old title. I've used it before on my previous blog, The Midlife Farmwife courtesy of my friend Stacey who tired of my complaining all the time about the mowing I used to have to do on our...
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So Long Mucca the Milk Cow
Our primary milk producing cow has been for the last year, a lovely bovine named Liz. We brought her up from our old farm last July. Her companion for some time was a heifer (young cow who has never...
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Yes Virginia, Hogs Do Eat Grass
In the late 60's when my father took us out and about in our green Chevy Van, a drive in the country meant livestock. We saw cows, sheep, horses, chickens (which is just annoying because they are...
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Breaking Ground on the New Barn
The new barn will sit approximately where the big white dog is strollingFinally, we broke ground yesterday and four post holes were dug for the new barn. We are thrilled. Rain, work schedules, sorting...
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Scary Night Shift Findings
I don't always sleep well. Too many years as a night nurse. First as a floor nurse working 11pm -7 am, then as a hospice nurse who took call and got awakened in the middle of night for needed home...
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Bones of the Barn are Up!
We've had decent weather lately, not horribly hot, which gave us great conditions to get barn work done. We borrowed a post hole digger, industrial type, from some friends and when attached to our...
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The Family Cemetery: How Not to Get Buried Under the Rules and Regs
View of our proposed family cemetery site at the south west end of our propertyView from within the cemetery area looking back towards our Grain Bin House located behind the trees .All we want to do is...
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High School Reunions. Why Bother?
I don't do reunions. Unless you count the sisterly kind where my siblings and I go away for a night or two every so often. But that's not really a reunion since we all live in Illinois and see each...
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A Homesteaders Obsession With Food
Lately, all I can think about is food.How to harvest it, clean it, dry it, can it, cook it, bake it, butcher it and freeze it. Mostly I worry about how to PRESERVE it so we can eat more of our own food...
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The New Barn Reaches for the Sky
A three day weekend. What a blessing. Keith was home all three days and son Jason was also off from his job, so able to help. Sunday evening friend Jay came by and so by today-Monday-some very serious...
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The Looney Bin gets a New Coat for Winter
It's more of a pretty mini skirt in mint green, rather than a coat, but still it should keep us warm and hopefully drier.Last year, perhaps because the winter was more wet than icy cold, we had an...
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Our Foul Little Farm, Dreaming of Chicken Dinners and a Barn Update
The above Monarch butterfly has nothing to do with this post. I'm just showing off because after a week of trying to get close enough for a photo the bugger finally let me close enough for this one...
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Full Freezers and an Empty Barn
Ennis, still waiting for the rides I promised her. Never in my farm life, have I had such a difficult time keeping up with my blogs. I only have two but still...I'm way behind. It's not as if I have...
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New Weather, New Walls and a New Granddaughter!!
Whether you're a fan of Bob Seegers song (Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There is a Season) or prefer to get your profundities from the Book of Ecclesiastes, I think you'll agree that Fall is a season...
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Chicken Butchering Time and a New Grandson!!
ondietandhealth.comWarning. if you are a vegetarian or someone who believes all the meat they buy in the grocery store or order at the restaurant comes from a magical mystery place where all animals...
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