We are enjoying watching our children love and care for their younger siblings. What a beautiful site….brothers …big and small.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Getting All Too Familiar…
This has become an all too familiar site around these parts… I almost ran out of gas last week…and it was a scary feeling driving around not being able to find gas—finally at the 3rd gas station they had one grade left…so I filled up with as much as they would let me get. Something…
Busy Week
We have been swamped this week. One day this week the boys took care of a rooster problem we were having. When roosters interfere with the humans getting sleep around here…they are out of here fast. Last time it was Craig’s List… this time the freezer. The great thing about this chicken processing day was…
Pig 1 and Pig 2
One of the questions we were asked recently was about our pigs…. So here is a brief overview of what we have learned with pig 1 and pig 2… We recently took pig 2 to the butcher shop and we are absolutely thrilled with the difference in taste and quality of meat between pig 1 and pig 2. With…
Amelia’s Aprons Cottage Business and the Amish Apron Pattern
For those of you who did not win our popular Apron Giveaway! Lorrie and Amelia over at Amelia’s Aprons have put together some apron patterns that are unique, simple, and fun—great for those beginner sewers out there or a creative gift for someone who likes to sew. Lorrie has designed an Amish style apron pattern so that you…
September Apron Giveaway – Last Day!!!
We will draw a winner tomorrow morning for the apron giveaway!!!! ———————————————- Amelia’s Aprons will be giving away two aprons to two of our blog readers. Leave me a comment with something to the effect of “enter me” (do not leave your email in your comment post). I will announce the winners of the two…
Agrarian Advice on the Election
I wish I could remember where I read this quote in regards to the upcoming election…. “Pray hard and plant a bigger garden….” (this would not be a picture of our garden)
Name that Feminist
To serve …beside such a man would be the privilege of a lifetime. And it’s fitting that this trust has been given to me 88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gained the right to vote…. It was rightly noted in Denver this week that (there are) 18 million cracks…
First uhm…ladies of the world unite…?
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but this one leaves me speechless! Yep, you guessed it, this is none other than First lady Palin and five former first ladies of Alaska. I’m not trying to be judgmental or anything, but maybe we should enter Mr. Palin in our Apron giveaway. What do ya’ll think? (Check…
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