First 2 weeks, Sept. 2015: Down on the Farm!!!! I was ill for a solid week at the end of August so the kids got a little break and did some computer programming with dad, did a lot of playing outdoors, took out their garden stakes/ helped put their supplies away for the winter and … [Read more…]
We’re going through our third week of talking about gardening and planting, plants and all that entails. This week we’re focusing a little more on the animals you might find in your garden or just outside on a beautiful spring day. We have some things sprouting and the kids are excited about planting more things! … [Read more…]
We’ll be working on plants, garden life and all sorts of things like that probably for the rest of the ‘school year’… seems wrong to say it like that, I’m not ready for it to be summer, I love teaching them! We’ll see how much they tolerate in the way of ‘learning’ over the warm … [Read more…]
I have the perfect recipe for you. What category do you fit in? I bet you can find yourself here! Don’t forget to pin it for later! Tired of Taco Tuesday? Need a new dish to add to your menu plan? This is a great pick me up for when you get bored of … [Read more…]
Preserve tomatoes without glass jars! As you can see from our bumper crop photo, we had WAY more tomatoes this year than we could eat! Having no canner and not wanting to have all the glass jars around for the kids to shatter, we decided to venture into freezing the tomatoes. A quick check with … [Read more…]
This was my initial blog posting, well the 2nd day anyway, where you first learn about ME, before kids… bwah ha ha. I think I’ll read some more later and share some gems. I was a year from being pregnant then, and had NO IDEA how soon that was all going to .. implode. It’s … [Read more…]
Out of a packet of seeds, we ended up carving one pumpkin and harvesting and eating the seeds (so far), my mom took a couple, and we have 10 still out there that we can enjoy for decoration and/or seed harvesting. Someone (deer, probably) have taken bites out of 3 more green ones left … [Read more…]
My favorite plants are always the spring wildflowers that arrive every year on our property, nothing to plant or maintain, they just show up. The violets in our grass just continue until winter–but the rest are fleeting. These are pics from 2012, I guess I didn’t get any good ones this spring, but enjoyed what … [Read more…]