Essential Oils are so trendy..or they were..maybe I’m behind the times. Are they still trendy? Essential Oils – amazing little bottles of scent for so many tasks around the homestead! They are the distilled heart of the herbs and flowers we interact with everyday. And they’re great for cleaning! I like dropping some lemongrass in…
Month: September 2017
7 Quick Takes: Rebuilding and Renewing
1. Tearing down the house and putting it back up again was so hard! Oh my goodness I’m still exhausted..that might be due in part to last night’s mini-sickness – both kids woke up a few times to vomit a bit and then sadly drift back to sleep – I didn’t get to sleep in between…
Tearing Down the House
We’re doing it! We took the walls off on Sunday and scrubbed them down, they’ll be painted today or tomorrow. This morning Seth is taking down the dome and we’ll be re-adjusting the lattice, cleaning the beams, and taking off the roof for cleaning and painting. It is so exciting. I can’t wait for my…
Rain Week
My rain barrels are close to overflowing! They were empty before the rain started last Sunday. The chicken run, the goat yard, the driveway, are all muddy and messy now. But it’s a happy, autumnal mud. Russian folklore would have me give over early September to St. Paraskeva-the-dirty, patron of fertile fields and muddy roads….
Bookish Homeschooling: September Breakfast Reading
We’re a week into schooling – and the structure of the day is holding up, for the most part, to distractions, spontaneity, and all the little things in life! We start the day with breakfast..well, the kids start the day trying to intrude on my early morning time, actually. They’re supposed to stay in bed…
Goats!
( I feel like a real homesteader now!) Aren’t they pretty! Lilith, Pele, Freja, and Inanna arrived Wednesday. They’re nubian does, none of them are milking currently, but we hope to have two of them bred this fall if possible. Right now, they’re just settling in and loving their new home. The kids are in love..they’re learning…
Y is For Home! 