Eat the Frog

Meet Millie and Addie, our two new ewes. They are Jacobs, a primitive goat looking sheep. They can also run fast and jump r...

34 days until the farm is ours. That is amazing to me. I feel like that 9th month of pregnancy all over again, nesting, eating, pacing. Add ...

Some thoughts I am distracting myself with while Hobbit is undergoing x-rays and the vet is discussing surgery. Last week I had the opportun...

Old fashioned cider press. Seriously. Yellow Daisy Mama sent me a link to their family tradition and I have been drooling over cider presses...

This is a picture of what Lil'Bug calls the "frog pond"; it is a mud hole that has been there before the creek was dammed up. ...

I mentioned in my last post that I plan to keep home in a different way. Here's my plan. I plan to choose things to fill my home that ar...

A strange transformation is happening at Chez Podkayne. We are listening to farm reports, reading Hobby Farmer for ideas and getting excited...

I am slowly, bit by bit realizing what our upcoming move means. For example: We will be able to see the stars at night! We can't because...

Before: After: What Dearest is doing right now is stabilizing the roof structure and preventing further water damage. We plan to re-roof in...

OK, so perhaps I did not post, after all the build up, about the farm. Our offer was accepted and one of the terms of the deal was that we w...

I have been spending way too much time at this color site . Seriously. Does it have to be that hard to choose between green, blue, or yellow...

This is a picture of the thing in the field. Since the field is currently in a cash crop, we did not want to go stomping through it. So we m...

Today we farm crawled, mama with two in tow, hurt wrist style. That means no pictures. We toured 3 of the 6 farms and focused on the three t...

* WARNING, pictures may gross you out. But at least you cannot smell them. Just saying. The lovely Abby at Sugar Creek Family Farm invited u...

Every CSA I've looked up today has a waiting list. More demand than product. Interesting. The model just may work for us. Reading more a...

I've been waiting to post until we have news, but we still do not have any real news to share. The only significant thing happening here...

Acknowledging Talent/ Not my own, but SarahSignature's . For sake of time, I snapped these photos yesterday during the open house (which...

It is officially Dearest's 30th birthday. Happy Birthday my love! We are having an open house for the selling the haunted mansion projec...

I am not good at waiting. I get ancy , anxious, and become a pain to everyone around me. I am working on it. So, of course life threw at me ...