In a funk
I am in a funk….. I don’t want to do taxes, I don’t want to cook, I don’t want to blog, well not like I use to anyways. And if you’ve read my blog for any amount of time this is serious people, I normally love to cook, and blog. Taxes well that’s another story. […]
Chicks and Babes
The boys just love their new little pet chicks and at every opportunity they want to ever so gently pet them. These 2 little Black Australorps are their newest delight. They named them Blue and Pumpkin. (Which happens to be some of the boys favorite words) Little H doesn’t mind them sitting on his lap, […]
Just call me the Chicken Lady
Well it looks like I have a bit of a problem. DT and I went to the local farmer’s co-op yesterday. To get chicken and dog feed, only. Well they had a bin full of new little chickies!!! And not just plain on Ameracauna’s (like we got last week) they had buff orpington’s and silver […]
A game of keep away
The 20th week of our winter garden, and we are almost ready to say good bye, next weekend we will pull what’s left of the garden like the cabbage that never quite made it and the carrots and turnips. DT will till the garden, let it sit a few days, then we will lay chicken […]
Garden and New Arrivals
*Don’t forget to stop by and enter to win the Book One and The Same* Its week 19 of our garden and we finally harvested our wonky cauliflower and second crop of broccoli. It was the perfect amount to feed the family for dinner. Though it wasn’t the prettiest or largest cauliflower ever, it had […]
Pesky the Amazing Chicken
We have chickens. As most of you know I like to write a little about my chickens every now and then, and I am amazed at how much we have bonded. They each have names (all 6 of them) and I can even Identify the chicken by the egg they lay. Because as you […]
Winter Garden week 14
It’s week 14 of the garden and we are finally eating and enjoying it. I picked our broccoli today and cooked Broccoli and cheese (a family fave). We’ve also been enjoying our lettuce this week in plenty of salads. The weather has been very mild with highs around 75 and plenty of sunlight so the […]
You might be a redneck….
You might be a redneck if your child’s best friend is a chicken named Sally. Sally that likes to ride on a gator. In fact she chases the gator around until you pick her up and place her on the seat next to Little W. She also doesn’t mind being poked in the eye petted […]
Winter Vegetable Garden – week 2
Week 2 of the garden and we’ve had lots of rain and lots of growth. Though sadly enough the pictures are still not all that exciting. I so will give a brief run through. Front view of the garden and we have some carrot sprouts Lots of little green sprouting up, it always makes me […]
Winter Vegetable Garden
We’ve Planted!!!! Yea after 3 weeks of waiting for the rain to stop we (ie: DT) was able to till and plant our winter vegetable garden. As you can see we still have some of our huge Okra plants, and a few pepper plants. They have slowed down a bit so we will probably pull […]
