Here is where I (re)started - the pile of wood left from tearing apart the roofing of the barn.  The long boards were put to good use - a ...

Monday madness didn't stop this gal from getting the list crossed off.  Even though I was dog-gone tired.   Popcorn was all pulled....

It's been hectic around the homestead.  Morning is crazy - feed dogs, feed cats, feed barn cats, dogs in, dogs out, dogs in, dogs out.....

Here is what the big barn ruble looked like on 6-26-17: And here is an updated photo, with a slight progress of "rubble-be-gon...

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...

This showed up yesterday afternoon, while I was out fetching eggs late in the day.... and this happened......

I started the day rather slower yesterday.  My achy body didn't want to get going.  I did my yoga stretches as usual, and got busy.  Fir...

I apologize in advance for the fuzzy photo, but these pulleys are way at the top and I was on the ground photographing them.  They are th...

It rained all day Saturday, but we split wood inside the barn.  I also tackled cleaning the last window blind, and Hubby helped.  We managed...

We had so much fog yesterday morning, that our kid's school actually closed.  This worries me as we tend to run out of snow days, and ...

I took this photo back in March of this year, in hopes to locate a barn salvage person or company.   This challenge is one of our b...

I have been busy in the kitchen again, dehydrating heirloom cherry tomatoes.

In our intent to maintain good health, and make progress in our self-sufficiency, I decided to inquire more on the fermentation process w...

The snow did not hurt my daffodils, or even the new sprouts of green onions in my herb garden.

Our largest barn is set for destruction next year.    We have used this barn, and even updated parts on it over the last 5 years, but it&#...

  ( Sky above a few of our old barns) Yesterday the weat her started o ut with a nasty downpo ur.   Although t here wasn't any t hu...

I too k thi s photo whe n I was lucky enough to be with hubby, and he was d riving.  I had my camera too.  There have been so many barns t...

Another day, another hike. I was super excited to see we have a "Poor Man's Banana Tree" on the property.  I never saw it...