Sorry it’s been so long, the move was much more complicated than we anticipated!  Then Summer took over, trips, beach time, football practice….you know how it is!   Here are some pictures of the girls new home.  My better half did a great job constructing it.  We did do a modification though and incorporated… Continue reading Coop Completion!

In anticipation of the arrival of the fifteen newest members of the family, we dug out the family dog’s old play pen and filled it with shavings. At 0644 on Thursday April 28 2016 the post office called to let me know our girls had arrived.  It’s been a LONG time since I got out… Continue reading The Chicks Are Here, The Chicks Are HERE!

Okay, so here is the finished product, sometimes it works best to work your way backwards, especially when the end result is so pretty!   I often lump my oldest in with “the kids”, but he is eighteen and soon to graduate from High School and will be off to College in the Fall.  “Once… Continue reading Chicken Coop Assembly

  This is what the side of the driveway looked like before our work day today.  Not pretty, I know!  Less pretty when you spend six hours with two adults and six kids working (?) side by side by side, sharing (?) tools and enjoying (???) each other’s company…. No, everyone got along pretty well,… Continue reading Burn Number Two!

      The “new” homestead is 31 years young this month. My Mother built the home in 1985, and the landscaping basically ended there! Before renovations started last September, the house was rented for almost two years. Needless to say, the yard needs A LOT of work. Phase one started this weekend.  First, we… Continue reading Burn Baby Burn!

Another brief, yet somewhat comical setback has been with the fruit trees and bushes we ordered back in November.  We really thought we would be in our “new” home by December, so we bought several varieties of apple, peach, plum, and pear trees, ten in all, plus a raspberry bush, a blueberry bush, and two… Continue reading Trees in Buckets!!

We have officially started planning and purchasing things for our homestead.   This week, after months of deliberation and research I decided to buy a chicken coop rather than build one.  We had hoped to keep our initial costs lower by using reclaimed pallets to build our first coop.  I read articles about coop size,… Continue reading Starting off with a chuckle….