I Want to Tell You Stuff.
But I have no time. So here we go, I’ll just throw the stuff at you.
Yesterday morning before Jeff left he told the boys to tend the burn pile.
I think this is what boys were created to do.
They certainly are in their element. And no one fell in.
It was an amazing thing. Granted they probably all have smokers lung.
But that is what antioxidants are all about. Like cod liver oil.
At least their clothes smell like smoke. And that is pretty cool when you are 10 and 12 years old.
The girls, being the domestic creatures that they are and so different from the pyromaniac boys they created a shelter.
I donated a tarp to their cause. I am told they had a great little place until someone sat in a chair and knocked the whole thing over. I don’t know for sure, I wasn’t there. Oh, see that building behind them?
Inside that building (inside the brooder) we are housing our new additions. They are mixed breed chicks that are about the size of ping pong balls. There is a story I must tell. So last Saturday we all went to the farmer’s market in Ava. We picked up some eggs and the egg fellow was a friendly (and talkative) guy. Before we knew it we had directions (no one ever gives addresses here, it is futile) and an invitation to come see his chickens. He has over 300, you see. Including the guineas we wanted.
So we drove all over tarnation looking for his place (Farm Road 100, the first 3 bay hay barn on the left) and when we were just about ready to go home we found the place. Then we spent the next hour at his place watching baby chicks hatch out of their eggs, admiring the 300 chickens, chasing and boxing guineas, off roading around his pasture to look at milk cows for sale and listening to the town gossip. It was quite fun. We left with the cute fuzzies above and 6 guineas (we will come back to those later).
In other happenings, yesterday Joshua, Josiah and John decided to rough house near the burn pile. Jacob told them "You shouldn’t play over there." but apparently they thought he was a mindless nincompoop because they ignored him and Joshua suffered a cut, two cuts, on his foot. The blood it did a flow. I doctored him up, called a nurse friend to make sure I handled it well, and Joshua spent the rest of the day hopping on one foot.
Whatcha think Carey? It looks almost professional, doesn’t it? And by then it was about 10am and I was tired. I wanted to take a nap. But instead I did this.
That’s 2 gallons of lacto-fermented pickles for all of you that are jar challenged. It’s ok, there are therapies for that. We also blanched and removed the skins from some tomatoes. Today we will process the rest of the tomatoes and make tomato sauce. YUM-O!!
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I absolutly love reading your blog and looking at your pictures!! Your kids are beautiful and I love the new farm, its always been a dream of mine to live on a farm!! Thanks for sharing everything with us!!
Dana, sahm to 2 boys
NOW, your making me envious. Look at that instant farm. Too cool. Now your making me have to go pray and repent of my jealous spirit. Oh, geez, I need to get off here and start school with Nate. Or throw in those thousands of dishes that didn’t get washed last night.
What’s your temps around there? One of your kids has a jacket on. We’ve been in the 80’s still and its really humid and sticky today. If you hurry. You could plant some green beans in one of those fields I seen in your pictures. That would be a harvest for almost free. Just pay for the bean seeds! They come up in 48 days. Will you be there that long?
Hope Joshua’s foot gets better soon. That’s boys for ya. I don’t know how many times I’ve warned them and they got hurt anyway. Gezz, the drive for manliness. LOL
Keep blogging. I’d love to see more of what ya’ll are doing. Love to see you learning and having fun.
Shell
http://www.shellsgang.blogspot.com
Katie,
Your farm is so lovely! My favorite pictures so far are of the foggy morning from your deck, and Junie’s hands full of grapes!
Can you share where you learned how to do your canning and freezing?
Thanks!
Beth
Great job Katie!!!
WOW… I haven’t tried the lacto-fermented pickles yet. I might have to try me some of those. And I am liking the big half gallon mason jars.
It almost sounds like you are talking about my neck of the woods on those directions. :)
I like that.
Have a great day!
Love,
Chas
Looks right professional! He looks a little proud of it, I love little boys!
It looks like a little slice of heaven, and those chicks are too cute!
My son really likes fire, too. We went camping this summer, and it’s all he wanted to do! We have a fireplace at home that we rarely use, but I foresee us using it more this year now that DS has mastered the art of starting a blaze. (sort-of scary, though!) ;-)
Eeeek! A boy tending the fire w/o shoes on! We have lived out in the country on 50 acres for 15 years. Learn from our mistake. Make them wear shoes! Enjoy your new homestead!
You’re having way too much fun down on the farm!! LOL
Enjoy your new place. :)
Sniff, sniff. Here I am in the city. Sniff sniff. Really, I AM so happy for you!
So, IF you didn’t eat them this winter, how long would those pickles be good for? They look sooooooooooooooo yummy. I know nothing about canning, but find the idea inspiring.
Looks like a fun day at ’school’ if you ask me
Just a quick question…what does lacto-fermentation mean? I’ve canned a few things in my day, but fermented precious few.
Fill me in, OK?
Thanks!
Welcome to country life, there’s nothing like it. Although up here in the great white north, we’d have to take another mortgage on our house to buy 150 red peppers, I’m trying so hard not to be jealous!