• House & Home

    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…

  • Homesteading - Reflections

    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…

  • House & Home

    Prepping for our Homestead Move

    You guys! The feedback we’ve received across all platforms (and in real life from family, friends, and colleagues) about our impending homestead move has been nothing short of amazing! Granted, there are those who think we’re a bit off our rockers to leave our current (so lovely) rental, but most…

  • Homesteading - House & Home

    The Next Chapter

    Hello Friend! Long time no chat! How are you? How’s your fall moving along? I do hope your transition from season to season has been a smooth one! Things have continued to be rather quiet in this space, but it’s not for lack of activity, I promise. Between the closing…

  • Journal Entries

    Concussed

    Five weeks ago, Kim fell down the stairs on her way to grab a late-night snack and gave herself a concussion. I heard the tumble from our bedroom and rushed down to find her sitting on the second step from the bottom, cold tea spilt everywhere, with her head in…

  • Food Storage & Preservation

    Putting Up

    For years I participated in the weekly Harvest Monday link ups (previously hosted by Daphne, but now residing, thankfully, with Dave). I was so proud of every single ear of corn, apple, bush bean and kale leaf. I’d harvest it all, bring it all in, and painstakingly weight it *and document it.…

  • Grow - Harvest

    For the Love of Blue Corn

    I’ve always had an affinity for corn… A truly profound draw to it. I love the way it spirals up… Encircling itself as it reaches for the sun… Capturing the rain within its long outstretched leaves… Strongly rooted… Profoundly towering… Swaying in the breeze, dancing in the wind. The sounds,…