Pioneer Woman at Heart

While I was shopping for school clothing and supplies, Hubby was on his way home from work.  However, he stopped to shop also.

" S now!? Are you kidding me?!" That was f irst thing out of m y mouth this morning. It's a small l a ye r is here and there, but seriously .  It's April 20th!  Look at all th at green from our recent rain too. . . .  obtained my fishing lice n se fo r this summer ( Hubby too) . . . . one of our last two red hens pass away. For some reason all of our red hens consistently became egg bound and died. This is why we chose to invest in barred ro cks this year.  We lost one to the great horn ed owl, but they seem to be larger a nd don't get egg bound or sick as much.  . . . made another batch of goat's milk ricotta cheese.  I p lan to make ri cotta pancakes, stuffed shells a n d even cookies.   Here i s the link to the recipe we use :  How to Make Ricotta Cheese with Goat's M i lk, Mother Earth News . . . added meat grinder a nd pressure cann er to the homesteading wish list.  I was iffy on buying either one, but I c...

If you have been a f ollower on my blog, you may remember our Camping Funny Post . Well this time, this i s what happened this past weekend. Yikes!  Look at pic ture #1 and then at # 2.  See any thing odd? We left to do some fishing a nd when we go t back, the awning was completely blown on top of the camper.   Hu bby I took the younger two girls camping, and once again , the weather man was wrong.  In stead of warm, sunny 60's, we had cold, cloudy, and very windy weather.  We fought the weather every day, until Sunday.  Cooking over the fire was a bit of a chall enge.  I am glad we could borrow the camp er, as it had electric heaters that we did have to use.   It was that cold Friday night. Either way, and although we did not catch any fish ( had a few tugs), we still ha d a good time.  Festivities were car ds, glo w-in-the dark Frisbee , and journaling.  The girls spent quite a bit of time writing stories and jo...