Our first miniature jersey calf was born on the farm last month which precipitated a lot of changes on the farm! Now our morning chores include milking a cow, processing that milk, and separating cream from the previous day’s milk. It’s been a fun adventure, to be sure.
This last year has been both the hardest and most rewarding. We moved into the garage, started living off water collection, finished the house and moved into it, bought sheep, halter trained a wild horse, bough pigs, created hay fields out of locust fields, wrote a book, built a pond… and found out that we were pregnant!
After weeks of anxious anticipation and worry, the house is starting to go up! We’ve built so many houses together since we got married, but this is the first house we’ve built for ourselves. And to watch it take shape has brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion. I often think back …
It’s certainly been a whirlwind of a month around here! It seems like just yesterday we were all starry-eyed and looking at property. Now we have two weeks to finish building a house on the land we purchased. Can you believe it?! We purchased the 43-acre piece of land we fell in love with and …
One morning about 4 months ago, I was out walking to feed our goats (we have four acres on the edge of town). It was one of those perfect mornings. Overcast. You could feel the small tingles across your face and arms as the early morning mist settled on you. Even the birds seem muted, …
