cow vs. goat

Taking this online hand milking/ cheese making and the goat soap making course is making me wild to get a goat or 3. This weekend I bought s...

drive by egging

It sounds worse than it was... actually we were out for a drive on Sunday afternoon, and I noticed a place a little up the highway had a few...

Yay the garden is fenced

Chris spent most of the day at a course in Edmonton. but when he got home I insisted that we needed to fence off the garden. It's not pr...

tail feather envy

The boys and I spent an hour or so at the bookstore in Edmonton Tuesday night while Chris was doing his trucking course. This funky looking...

A Wild Goose Chase

A few weeks ago I mentioned my " evil Friend " the goose who had laid eggs on our hay bale? And how I was unsure what the fate of ...

How to Build a Wall in Your Backyard (article)

Oddly I came across an article in Esquire magazine about how to build a stonewall in your backyard. Considering I think we have about a mill...

Information overload

Thursday was another wet and rainy day around here. And I couldn't take it! Feeling trapped in the house, we somehow ended up on a littl...

How does your garden grow?

We have a small Forest in the front window (still) I'm pretty pleased almost everything sprouted. And I'm dying to put them outside...

class is in

Remember me mentioning how excited I was about Herbal maid fiber farm and Kathy's online classes? You can see the previous post here I ...

Such a productive weekend

My Dad came for the weekend. Nathan was in heaven. He adores my dad, his Grandpa Zoom. But Dad is great to have around for productivity. Chr...

Blooms

Finally. There are some blooms coming through. The lilacs are starting to bloom in the front yard. I've got the perfect jug that I can...