We finally had a few dry days, which for me meant weeding.  Lots of weeding and a garden hoe.  Although not completely weeded out, I dropped...

I went to the barn early yesterday to fetch the hoe before the bumble bees woke up (terrible again this year).  (steps I got on my fit...

In between all my other work, I am reclaiming the flower beds, and each time I make my weed piles a bit higher (or more of them). One d...

Happy 4th of July!   We stayed around the homestead for the holiday weekend.  Well, most of it.  We visited family and friends at the Lake...

Mom gifted me some pie pans when she came to the grad party.  They are now attached to the pea fence for another rabbit deterrent.  I...

As promised, here is a photo of the carpenter bee traps I use.  They work if your mount them in a place where they do not move (swing in t...

I finally finished this book.  I have started another one.  Surprisingly.  Photos to come soon when I remember to take them. We have ...

Although I already posted this photo, here are just a few more....some of these were taken last week or so.

We have had an ample amount of tomatoes in the house lately, and the gnats are horrible.  One daughter found this idea on the internet and...

Sometimes walking a dog (or two, or three) can take me to areas of the property I haven't been to for a few days.  I was out walking K...

The mosquitoes are terribly thick this year, and we are seeing swarms of them in areas we never saw before. So...... I decided to dig a ...

Grab a cup, it's a long update.  Enjoy! The weekend brought us some time to get some work done.  As well as a little rest time.  And...

  I overslept this morning, but water is heating now to brew my nettle/oatstraw tea infusion.  Coffee is brewing to wake up my sleepy over...

Now that I have many plants in the garden, I have mixed up my first homemade organic bug spray for my vegetable garden. I found one recipe...

Now I'm taking the herbs to a different level.  There are so many uses for herbs (and oils) it's so much fun to research and try ...

Hubby bought a new sign for the front porch.  I thought you could use a short post to read today, since a wrote such a long one yesterda...

We have one hen that refuses to get off the eggs.  The problem?  Well, Sparta is in the dog kennel, so the eggs have zero chance of fertili...

Saturday it rained heavily the entire day.  It was a very gloomy, get-in-your-jammies-early day.  We still made a trip to the gy...

I just had to share this.  We got three habanero peppers from the garden this year.  That's all.  I think we planted 4 habanero pepper...

(all the old roofing loaded up by my son and Hubby's brother-in-law) . . . it took two days, but the leftover roofing was remove...