Homesteading

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2018 in Review – Another Year in the Books!

Despite my sporadic presence here this year, I simply could not let us slip into 2019 without a review of 2018, now could I?! It seems as though the thing to do these days instead of making a resolution or two to kick off a new year is to pick a word as a theme to focus on in the…
December 31, 2018
The Autumn Slide

The Autumn Slide

What a summer it's been! I swear to you that I've written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen, if you will). I've thought around how to communicate months…
September 10, 2018

Mama’s Quadruplets

Quads! Can you believe it! Yes, last Thursday night (3/22), Mama Mello gave us quadruplets! The delivery was quite rough with them all twisted and tangled up in there, but everyone survived and is thriving! As I thought it might, it all started on Thursday afternoon when I realized Mama's pen tendons were gone. Ember helped me gather the Goat Box…
March 27, 2018

Shown, Unshown – Moving the Farm & The Space Between

Tomorrow marks four weeks since we made our move to a new home and new beginnings and I can't believe a whole month has already passed! Time has both flown by and seemed to stand still for us. There have days upon days of work...doing and re-doing...planning and scheming...unpacking and nesting. And then there has been setbacks and steps forward...dreams…
March 22, 2018

Homestead Move – Crunch Time

Why on Earth does anyone ever move? I am such a home-body, a creature of habit, that moving is like a never-ending nightmare for me. The chaos and uncertainty of it all is absolutely nerve-wracking let alone the physical labor of it all. Add all the farm tools and farm animals into the mix of the home-stuff and I may…
February 12, 2018

Just like that…

I didn't believe the adults in my life who told me, when I was still young and free and hadn't a care in the world, that the older I'd get, the faster time would pass. And yet, here I sit on the third day of a brand new year, wondering where the time has gone. It's true that 2017 went by…
January 3, 2018