Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Hand written canning recipes from my mom’s homedone cookbook

I could not resist sharing just a few of these, but I am NOT!~ recommending these as safe recipes in anyway in line with todays recommended canning practices..  This is a walk down memory lane only!

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Beautiful Bees.. These bee’s were as big as my thumb!

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Mom’s Little Garden Update..

So here was what I came home to.. This is what we have two weeks later.. but man am I behind in that big garden!

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Mom Update for her surgery..

Well, mom got her staples out and the wound itself looks great.. We found at that she has very extense nerve’s acting up, so we have added in a topic nerve dimmer to the program and that seems to be … Continue reading

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Food Forest-Hiding in plain view..

If you drove by this, would you see anything other than a green jungle? Currently in that front green jungle there is Apple Trees Pear Trees Plum Trees Sweet Cherry Trees Sour Cherry Trees Mulberry High Bush Cranberry Honey Berry … Continue reading

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The next part of my Family Milk Cow Journey with Girl

Girl will be two years old in July, and I am so very excited to annouce that yesterday, she was bred, we will of course have to wait a full month to see if she took? or if she comes … Continue reading

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And a baby turtle added to the mix..

So as you can see, the mudhole is basically done.  Had I not dug the post-holes yesterday, it’d be completely dry this morning. I went down with a bucket and sieve to retrieve what I could out of the post-holes.  … Continue reading

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Toad Tadpoles-Round three..

Last nights update: So:  Operation “Toads Worry – Be Happy” is underway, in its modified form.  The mud hole has two to four inches of water and will be dry tomorrow unless it rains (60% chance, they say – but … Continue reading

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My Laugh for the Day..

My mom can tell a good yarn, she is not a gossip but she believes in story telling and does a pretty good job even now and again as stand-up at different events over the years, and to be honest, she … Continue reading

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Tadpole Rescue underway..

Turns out that we are not going to have rain for at least a week and that our little “pond” is losing water at an alarming rate in the heat, and DH is quite worried about there being enough water for … Continue reading

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