The new year is here and now is the time to take stock of the old and reflect on what may or may not need changing.
First the unavoidable, the schoolwork. We managed to finish up all our themes from last year and so will be starting a new theme when we start up again later [...]
Today it is three years since we moved here!
It is a beautiful spring morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, all those spring things are happening.
Looking back, we have come along way in the preceeding three years. We love this lifestyle, something that many can’t cope with, but for us it is, now, [...]
It has been a while since anyone has written anything on here, so time for an update.
We are still patiently awaiting the arrival of Daisy’s first calf. We are all prepared for it with the milking bay functional, and Daisy willing to go in and eat in there. We have calcium in case of milk [...]
This year we took Samantha to Zion Wildlife Gardens for her birthday – she had been asking for quite a while, and it all managed to work out this year.
As we expected it turned out to be a bit of an expensive trip (especially with the stuffed toys and t-shirts that we purchased after the [...]
As a new year is about to come upon us, it is time to take stock and see how close to our goals we have reached.
The garden is starting to crank up for the summer harvest, and we even got our first crop of beans for the year. We eat alot of beans, so this [...]
In three weeks time, we will have been here for two years.
In two weeks it will be spring.
Now is the time I have been looking at how we have been fairing especially over the winter. We have not done too badly for beginners at this really.
The animals have come through an especially wet winter without [...]
Sometimes things happen that leaves you wondering. We read funny stories in books and wonder how someone would think of it, or if anyone would be dumb enough to try it. And yet we have one of those stories ourselves.
A recent conversation we had reminded me of this event that happened a couple of months [...]
There is a very cold, polar blast coming up the country today and it is really cold.
Even the pigs hae taken cover in there house because it is just too wet and cold today.
Feeding the animals takes on a whole new meaning when you are wadding through mud in the freezing cold, while trying to [...]