Hello everyone and I hope you all have been having a great week so far. If you recall last week, we kicked the year off with a small survey to get an idea of the things people were doing on their homesteads. Today, I wish to share those survey results with you and hope to give you inspiration for things that you can do as well. [Read more…] about Homesteading Survey Results
It’s Survey Time
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! In December 2018, we last talked about Chicken & Dumplings, but today we wanted to start the year off with a quick survey. The goal of this survey is to explore what others are growing and making so that the results may inspire others. I know what we are all out here doing our own things, but sometimes it is good to share that knowledge. What you do, may seem like every day life for you, but to others it may be a revelation! [Read more…] about It’s Survey Time
Last Piece of the Puzzle – Our Homestead Truck
Hey ya’ll! It’s been a while. Hope all is well….
We have some exciting news! No…unfortunately it’s not that we’ve started building – Lord please let it happen soon – but, we are taking great news as we can get it. So, the news [Read more…] about Last Piece of the Puzzle – Our Homestead Truck
Yard Work at the Homestead
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Hello everyone. This past weekend, we ventured back out to the property to do a little bit of yard work. In one of our previous posts, “Surprise, Surprise! What We Found On The Land“, we talked about going out to the land and doing some brush hogging. Well, that involved a rental truck, rental ramps, and a rental brush hog – and all of that equaled dollars!! [Read more…] about Yard Work at the Homestead
Why We Are Choosing This And You Can Too!
I don’t know if you saw hubby’s last post, “Today, The Land Became Ours“, but after six long months, we finally closed on our land! Now that was a long lesson in patience. I just wanted to share that great news with you guys before getting on to the point of this post.
Okay, now that that’s over….Homesteading. That word means a lot of different things to different people. For some, when you say homesteading, you think of “Little House On The Prairie” living. Some think of “roughing it” – no modern conveniences like electricity or plumbing. Some think of it as [Read more…] about Why We Are Choosing This And You Can Too!
Today, The Land Became Ours
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
– James 1:17
Today – June 14, 2018 – is one of the most awesome days of our lives (besides our wedding and babies being born)!!! Today we FINALLY closed on our land and we are thrilled to be able to share the news! Back in December 2017, we shared our first blog post about the beginning of our journey. Since that time, we have gone through the long process of getting to this day.
For us, it is really special because if you are keeping count, it has taken us SIX MONTHS to [Read more…] about Today, The Land Became Ours
Our Journey: An Update To Our Update
So, just to check in on our update…
It’s been a while, and if you’ve been following our journey, you know that we’ve set our eyes on a piece of raw land. In our update post, we talked about how a housing offer that fell through led us to finding a piece of property that we thought we’d make our own. We were in the process of going though our “Due Diligence” – checking boundaries, soil testing, appraisals..and everything was checking out one by one until… [Read more…] about Our Journey: An Update To Our Update
Aloe: The Plant That Loves Neglect
My darling, Mr Green Thumb, can grow anything. He’s much like how his dad was – he can take something that was almost dead and spring it back to life. I, on the other hand, am Mrs. Brown Thumb. I kill stuff. Growing plants is just not my thing. I’ve tried before and failed miserably…except!
Aloe.
I LOVE the Aloe Vera plant. Mainly because I can completely forget about it and it not only survives, but thrives. Seriously, it is the only thing in my house that I can completely ignore and it prefers it that way. Imagine that! The more I neglect it the more it loves me. We’re a match made in heaven. I started off with one plant and now I have four. I had five, but I gave one to my sister who is also a serial plant killer. I think the plant I gave her will be happy there LOL. [Read more…] about Aloe: The Plant That Loves Neglect