Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. ~ Dr. Suess Do you celebrate the people in your life? I don’t mean celebrating birthdays and anniversaries but everything. The people in our lives weather they have been part of it for a short time or long. Weather they…

Here we are, Groundhog Day 2019 and Puxsutawney Phil, Celebrity resident of Puxsuatawney Pennsylvania, graced the crowds with his presence and his much anticipated prediction for the upcoming spring. In his usual fashion he had to be coaxed from his slumber in his comfy stump to tell all of America “A beautiful spring it shall…

The seeds are in the stores! Actually they have been in the stores for a while and shopping early is the best way to get the best selection and to guarantee you will get the varieties you want. I can’t help myself when it comes to browsing the seeds wherever I go it is just…

What do you do when life interrupts the plan? It’s inevitable, it is going to happen. It’s how you deal with it that matters. Some times we just need to get out of our own way. It could be a higher power trying to tell you “Hang on, slow down.” Whatever the plan is, life…

With working both on our homestead and at conventional jobs finding a balance without burnout is a subject that needs to be seriously discussed. Jobs on the homestead can be handled in any way that works for you of course but delegated or assigned jobs and responsibilities are what work best for us. In order…

I haven’t really even started writing “blogging” about our homestead and I am already being asked why. Why do I want to write about it? Wont that make even more work? It’s just doing it going to be hard enough? Seriously, why do we do anything? There is usually a rational reason as to why…