Progess!
Here is the entry way after it’s first cleaning and mopping. Will and I took a deep breath and plunged in – wearing work gloves – to remove the mouse-mess-infested, ever-smelly mountain of trash in the corner. In this pile we found many surprises.
I had assumed, at first, that this pile was primarily camping gear [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Homestead: A Clean Entry
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged entry way, entryway, environmentally friendly cleaners, green cleaning products, homemade cleaners, lavender, lavender buds, lavender cleaner, lavender flowers, orange peel, trash, vinegar, white vinegar on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Homestead: The Demon-Cat in the Pantry
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, Paranormal, tagged brownie, brownies, cat, cats, Christ, demon, demon cat, demon cats, demons, Lord, pantry, Paranormal, pray, prayer, spirit, spirit cat, spirit cats, spirits, spiritual warfare, types of spirits on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The spirit in the old lady’s closet wound up in the pantry. It is just across the wall from the closet, and I felt truly simple when I went in there to see what I could see (with my spiritual eyes), and saw the same fellow, lounging around making faces.
There he stood in the back corner, staring disgustedly [...]
Potato Harvest
Posted in Gardening and Plants, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged garden, gardening, harlequin beetle, harvesting potatoes, potato, potato harvest, potatoes on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We finished the potato harvest.
This is only the first basketful, but we considered it a nice start, and these only took a couple hours to dig. We had planted the plants closer together than normal, under cardboard and sand, in a regular garden plot. They mostly grew well, and it must be said that we already [...]
Homestead: A Goat Shed
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged evergreen trees, garage, goat, goats, God, granary, horse, horses on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I discovered, the day of the great snow, that there is a very nice building on the homestead, which may serve as a weather-tight, cozy barn for my goats and horses.
It is only an old granary, connected to the garage, but it is so surrounded by evergreen trees that the weather has had no chance to [...]
What Our (Hopefully) New House Looks Like From Outside…According to the Original Wardway Kit Blue Prints
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged kit homes, wardway kit homes, kit home, floor plans, house plans, bungalow, bungalow floor plan, kit houses, "The Vincennes" house plans, "The Vincennes" on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few things were changed from these plans. For instance, the floor plan was flipped, and the mudroom was added after the main structure was built (the plans below do not include a mudroom).
There was never any intentions (seemingly) of putting in bedrooms and a sewing room upstairs, though this seems this would have been [...]
Columbus Day
Posted in Inspirations for Life and Projects, Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Home Schooling/Unschooling, Thankfulness, Virtues/Character, working together on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores;
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: “Now must we pray,
For lo! the very stars are gone.
Brave Adm’r’l, speak! What shall I say?”
“Why, say: ‘Sail on! sail! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day;
My men grow ghastly, wan [...]
Homestead: My Plans for the Mud Room (it Won’t Stay a Mud Room)
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged butcher, butchering, canner, canning kitchen, cement floor, cheese, cheeses, coal stove, cooking, cookstove, dairy, deer, deer hunting, fire wood, floor drain, goat cheese, goats, goats milk, house remodel, kitchen, milk, mud room, potting bench, propane stove, remodel, remodeling, summer kitchen, wood cookstove, wood stove on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the mudroom as it has no doubt stood for many years (minus K-10 the German Shepherd). It is a nice mudroom.
Only problem is, the attached kitchen is rather small. It has a nice propane stove, however, with six burners and two ovens. I would like to put our Dixie wood-and-coal cookstove in, though, [...]
The First Real Snow, In Town
Posted in My Life and Family, tagged K-10, K-10 Von Canein, magic, snow, snow fall, snowfall on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the snowfall in town. I think this first picture is pure magic. Early morning nearly always has a bit of magic, even without snow and fancy camera settings.
This picture is more true to the actual colors:
I was thinking how cute this little evergreen would look with colored lights strung around it.
K-10 was not [...]
Homestead: A Real Snow
Posted in My Life and Family, tagged first snow, homestead, K-10, K-10 Von Canein, snow, snow fall, snow storm on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning was our first “real” snow. After enjoying the beauty of the snow built up on the trees and buildings in town – the stillness and magic of the snow continuing to come down, and turning the air to a dancing, freezing wonder – we went out to the farmstead to check a (humane) skunk [...]
Tyger Plays Her First Fiddle Tune
Posted in Books Videos Music, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, tagged 1/4 size fiddle, 1/4 size violin, bow, chord, chords, fiddle, music, octave, piano, pitch, small fiddle, small violin, violin on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tyger recently developed an interest in structured music. She practiced on the piano for several days, developing an idea of chords, octaves, and pitch. Then she asked to try the fiddle.
I was hesitant at first, thinking she merely wanted to use the 1/4-sized instrument (which was Billy’s, and which he had neglected) as a toy. But I was [...]
First Snow Fall
Posted in Celebrations, Gardening and Plants, My Life and Family, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged Autumn, bird, cardinal, cardinals, Fall, fall gardening, first snow fall, first snowfall, garden, gardening, green tomatoes, snow, winter on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It definitely didn’t look quite this romantic, but it did snow today for the first time this fall.
We are supposed to have snow for the next three days, off and on. We’ll see.
My mother is taking time today to yank the rest of the garden things – beans and peppers, the last of the tomatillos, [...]
Homestead: Autumn Surrounds Us; Well Troubles
Posted in Home Improvements, Inspirations for Life and Projects, My Life and Family, tagged Autumn, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Fall, home, house, moving, old house, property, pulling a well, water well, well on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The house looks a bit sad without its snuggling summer foilage. But it also fills me with inspiration for remodeling and redecorating ideas. In many instances, redecorating is not the right word, as the house has never had a lick of wall paper, and in many places, not even paint. So I will get to [...]
