Muddy Boots

Back to the Blog

Homestead blog, that is.  I like my wordpress blog and I'll continue to maintain it, but I missed the Homestead Blogger community.  I need a place to ask questions and exchange ideas.   Over the last two years I've learned two very important lessons:  1) We have a lot to learn and 2) My dream is not going to happen overnight, it's going to take years of hard work.

 As we close our second year in Kentucky, I do see forward progress.  Our garden, even with the severe drought, prospered and I managed to freeze quite a few tomatoes and a couple of batches of spaghetti sauce.  We harvested strawberries and grapes, making preserves and jelly.  There will never be store-bought jam in our house again!  Princess and I made fermented pickles twice, although no one likes them.  We have zuchini and corn, frozen and ready to eat.  I have a large canner and learned how to hot-water-bath can.  We now have six laying hens and a rooster who have done a pretty good job of keeping us in eggs, with the incubator humming with our next batch.  I have plans for planting a large quantity of garlic this fall.

 Our family consists of me, my husband (Daddy-O), Rooster (ds-15), Princess (dd-13), and Flower Child (dd-9).  We also have seven cats, two dogs, three fish, one white quail, and the above mentioned chickens.  I continue to pine for my very own Jersey cow.  God, in his mercy, has NOT answered that prayer, knowing that I am not emotionally ready and the farm is not physically ready for such an undertaking.   Since our marriage, Daddy-O and I have lived in six states, homeschooling in four, and raising tomatoes at each and every one of our fourteen homes.  I am now a recovering retired U.S. Navy wife and this is the Forever House we've been dreaming about for a very long time.

So glad your back!

{ 08:04, Saturday, September 15, 2007 } { Posted by LittleHouse }

I have missed reading your blog! I hope you can stay a while here at homesteadblogger.

Blessings,

Ma