I am so excited... This morning I canned up my first chicken stock!I was able to get some all natural, antibiotic free, hormone free, free-range chicken! Yay!I roasted it first and picked the meat for some of our meals.Then I took the bones, some onions and carrots and water and … [Read more...] about Chicken Stock-Canned!
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Birding 101
Last week, the children and I started working on a project for Biology. We have made a 'birding' station right outside our bay window in the school room.We filled and hung feeders.We made and hung suet cakes.We horsed around a bit...We talked with the out of doors members of our … [Read more...] about Birding 101
Sometimes…
Sometimes, real life just keeps on pounding on your door and you walk in to find your hot water heater busted.Yeah. That happened.Then you have to work long into the evening to get things moved just to take out said water heater out of the smallish pantry.And stuff gets piled … [Read more...] about Sometimes…
In Real Life…
I don't know about y'all, but around here... we live in real life.Sometimes it's beautiful. Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes it's messy and you just want to have a do-over.In real life, kitchens get messy.In real life, Mommy and Daddy get mad at one another.In real life, children … [Read more...] about In Real Life…
It’s FALL Y’all!
Happy First Day of FALL!I hope it feels as wonderful at your homestead as it does here at ours. It is a little overcast and dreary. I love it! It feels amazing...So for today's post, I am going to post some of my favorite fall decoration pictures from Pinterest and at the end … [Read more...] about It’s FALL Y’all!