I finally found my own little patch in bloggerland. First I will tell a little bit more about our homestead. It is a townhouse with a small front and back garden, which we (dh, ds, dd and I) share with one dog, two cats and a bunny. The house with the two gardens is about 1500 square feet, not much according to American standards, fairly average over here. But I do have an allotment, which is almost 1200 square feet and it's only a 5 minute bike ride away. In our back garden we have an enormous eldertree, a prolific blackberry bush, and a small raspberry bush, hence the berry patch.

Besides taking care of my family, house, garden and pets, I am studying English and Celtic languages at our local university. I have almost finished my first year, just two more weeks (and two exams ) and I will have a nice long break. During my break part of our house will be remodeled: french doors between the living room and the back garden will be put in, the wall between the kitchen and the living room will come down and finally a whole new kitchen!  When all that is finished we will paint and wallpaper the living room, and put in a new wooden floor ourselves.

Well, that's it for my first entry! I will take some pictures of my allotment , when I go there tomorrow to do some weeding and planting, and post them.

blessings, Ellen

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Posted by morningsunshine

welcome! I love homesteadblogger, and I think you will too! I remember when I found my own patch in the bloggersphere - I was hooked within minutes!

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Posted by GypsyFarmGirl

Welcome to Homestead!, there are all sorts of folks on here with great personalities and wonderful posts.

Jeannie

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Posted by wannabeone

Welcome to Homesteadblogger!! You will LOVE it here!

Isn't technology wonderful...imagine getting to know folks from other countries like this...what would our grandparents have thought about THIS?!

I would LOVE to learn some of the Celtic languages...my dad's side were Scotch-English and came over to America in the 1700's...THEN they got mixed up w/the Cherokee! lol

Please don't think that all American's - or even most - Americans live in big houses. A 1500 sq. ft. house is probably average for most of the US, and big in many parts. We live in a 170+ year old house that's been added on to MANY times durng it's existance and is around 1900 sq. ft. and it's by far the biggest house we've lived in during our married life (almost 24 years).

So glad to 'meet' you!

Blessings from Ohio (USA), Kim Wolf<><

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Posted by abundantblessings

ELLEN!!!
So glad you've started a blog!!!!
Now I get to see the beautiful places you write about!!!!

Welcome aboard!!!!

Blessings,
Laurie

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