Mmmmmm garlic scapes! I love them, don’t you? OR maybe you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about… These are garlic scapes, They are the curly tops of garlic you grow fresh in the garden. Due to a long story, I had an abundance of scapes this year and since I’ve been dying to…
So, this is our third year on our property and therefore the third year of our gardens life. You can check out last years garden HERE and the first year HERE. Every year it gets better and better and every year I tell myself I am going to stay on top of the weed situation…
Hi! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Friday Favorites post and since I’ve seen several fantastic things I wanted to share with you around the web, I figured it was about time to bring it back! I have been on a silent quest to be more organized in my life and in our home…
This is Isabelle, or Izzy for short. She is the newest member of the family. Isn’t she cute?!! We are all enjoying watching her cute kitten antics like playing with the shoes, coming in close for snuggles, planning her attack on our feet as we walk by and all sorts of other kitten shenanigans. Although…
Ok, so to be honest I am not a super experienced gardener. Our last home where we had a garden was several years ago (which wasn’t very big and my mom helped with it most of the time) and the garden we have now is still being established (this will be our third year in…
Do you ever get tired of having piles of bread and buns and tortillas and things like that scattered all over your kitchen? Are you looking for an easy, pretty and simple DIY for your kitchen that can be done in an evening or two? Hey! How are you guys? I’m doing great. We’ve been…
Hi there! It has been awhile since I’ve done a homestead update and since I took some pictures around the place this morning I figured I may as well share with all you. I love our ducks, they are so cute! Unfortunately we lost one (we believe to a large predator bird) and I was…
Just thought I’d do a little December recap of our family happenings around Christmas. Above you can see we are in our holiday best 😉 At the beginning of the month my youngest two tested for their next belt level in Tae kwon do and they both passed! Gabe got his gold belt… and Cadence…
Wow!! I can not believe it is already January first and that I didn’t write a single post in December. Well, actually I can believe it because if I had only one word to sum up 2015 it would be BUSY. Especially the last month or so as I decided it would be “fun” to…
Last time I was here, I mentioned some changes happening that I was excited about and now we are (almost)done! Since we moved to this place we have wanted to install a wood stove. We had a wood stove in both our rental place and the original cozy cabin and just loved the warmth they…