Since 2016 the work of running first one, and then two small agricultural businesses on top of homeschooling multiple grade levels and having a life, made blog writing virtually impossible. But, as we once again move to an area far from family and friends, and while I am no longer running businesses, it makes sense … Continue reading
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Sometimes the Best Birthday Present is Rain
These are photos from another storm that didn’t bring much rain, but it was worth it just to see all the clouds and lightening and hear the thunder bowling through the hills. We are due for another storm today. Today is my 29th birthday. Next year I will be 30. I still don’t feel like … Continue reading
The Equal Night
Spence says today is the equinox, which is Latin for “equal night”, when the day and the night are equal in length. I planted oats and barley for our animals to graze on behind the house, and they are coming up nicely among the mallow. Hopefully on Thursday I will plant a small pasture with … Continue reading
Can Summer be over now, please?
I haven’t been writing blogs lately because I haven’t felt like saying anything nice. You know that thing your parents would tell you, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything”? Well, I am trying to stick by that rule. Nobody wants to hear me complain about how ridiculous living in the … Continue reading
Bobcat, Cooper’s Hawk, Burn Out–Check!
Last week on Wednesday night we drove home late from Santa Cruz and found a bobcat in our coop. Spencer went to shut the hens in, and found one on the grass by the edge of the fence. Not thinking much of it he tossed her into the dark coop and was about to shut … Continue reading
Panoche Sunset, Disbud your Buddy Early, and Mercey Hot Springs
Our view of the dairy at dusk. Spencer had to do his own version of calf roping and tying to disbud Cloud, which was pretty exciting. Looks like he did a good job though, and no one was severely injured. Spencer did get kicked in the calf. That led to lots of dumb jokes about … Continue reading
A Peacock Easy On the Ears
My dad sent me a link to Charlie Peacock’s new blog, and a post he thought we would enjoy. I did! You might too. It made me miss that area outside of Sacramento, Yuba Co., in which I have listened to many piano tunings and where we got our Super Dog, Ci (now Kitty). … Continue reading
Chapter. . .oh whatever. So, W.H.T.M.D. !?
Today I was wondering how I could spend my time better in order to avoid going totally insane. To do this, I made a page assessing my daily activities, titled “the W.H.T.M.D. Worksheet”. WHTMD stands for, “what happens to my day”. I sat down and went through the things I do every day and calculated … Continue reading
Old Things and Longhorns
A friend passed this picture along to us because she said it reminded her of our chicken coop. I think this one is much nicer, but we can incorporate some elements into future coops. The caption on this photo said these are “white wyandottes”. They look quite healthy and plump. Here’s ours as it looked … Continue reading
When life hands you lemons, and then grabs them back and uses them like mini yellow squirt guns and sprays lemon juice in your eyes:
That is to say, life sometimes not only makes you weary, it also robs you of the empathy and community support that would make weariness easy to bear. We have a prayer, a secret prayer, one which can only be answered by miraculous intervention and provision. Our faith is so threadbare and ragged, that … Continue reading
A Freeform Life 