May. 29, 2007
Your Funny Homestead Contest
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Our winning blogger this week is in for a reat treat!
Lisa Vitello from
New Harvest Homestead has donated one free introductory issue of her New Harvest Homestead e-Newsletter. It is like a mini-book each time you get it - cram-packed with interesting tidbits, helpful how-to's, and inspiring thoughts that will encourage you to remain steadfast at home. New Harvest Homestead is
the newsletter for women who LOVE to be home! Kitchen gardening, canning & preserving, cooking & baking from scratch, backyard flocks, homekeeping, crafting & LOTS of Titus 2 encouragement!
You can read more from Lisa here on her personal blog or on the Putting Food By column on the Front Porch.
Want to know how to win? Just leave a comment here with your funniest homestead story .
Blessings,
Nancy Carter
HomesteadBlogger Senior Editor
www.HomesteadBlogger.com/UnlikelyHomesteader
Comments
May. 30, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ElCloud
Well, since we aren't yet living on our homestead, we're not that long on stories yet. But the funniest, so far, would have to be either the dead squirrel in the basement ...
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/elcloud/2534/Basement+Critters+....html
or the still living snake on a sticky rat trap in the basement ...
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/elcloud/13099/First+Farm+Trip+of+the+Season.html
Although there are other ones ... like setting that tree on fire when we burned brush ... or cutting down the wild cannibis growing behind the barn, and then burning it on the brush pile. (Actually it was very hard to get lit since it wasn't dry, and I made all the kids go in the house in case the smoke was going to have any effects.)
Or the time Steve came inside carrying the chain saw and asked me to take off his boot (which had a big cut in the side) to see if he'd mangled his foot or not. Thankfully, his sock wasn't even cut, but his boots are fairly worthless now.
April
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May. 31, 2007 - Homestead Story
Posted by FarmWife
I guess it wasn't funny at the time, but years ago, my 8-year-old daughter came screaming into the house with an empty egg basket (her morning chore of collecting eggs). "There's a coyote eating our chickens!" she shrieked.
Without a thought I snatched up a...broom...and went after that pesky coyote. Sure enough, there he was with a chicken in his mouth. I ran after him and whacked at him. He dropped the chicken and took off.
But not for long....Soon (and I mean a few minutes later) he was back for the breakfast he'd dropped on the run. Enough of this, I thought. So I went into the closet and got out the .22 pistol. I slammed in the clip, told the kids to stay in the house, and went out in the front yard. There he was, not more than 15 feet away, with my chicken in his mouth, just looking at me.
That did it! We live inside the city limits, but I didn't care if I shouldn't be shooting off guns in town. I took aim and shot at the coyote. He didn't move. He just looked at me. Another shot. Same reaction. I began to think I was firing blanks. Two more shots. Missed again.
Then, apparently disgusted with my poor marksmanship, he trotted off---chicken still in his mouth. We never saw him again.
Moral: If you're going to shoot a coyote, try some target practice first.
Susan
Edited by FarmWife on May. 31, 2007 at 10:01 PM
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