Tonight Lea came over for a short visit to check on me and to bring some gifts for Mackenzie. I snuck out while they were playing with trains to put in a load of laundry, and I noticed that the light in the backyard…
Last weekend we had a haul of 8 pints of delicious, locally grow strawberries to contend with. This past weekend we outdid ourselves and picked over 22 pounds of beautiful Sweet Charlie strawberries. We spent most of Sunday washing, hulling, de-stemming, and freezing them.…
This weekend’s meal planning was a little haphazard — we tried to squeeze too much into our Sunday — but I think we’re pleased with it overall. We went to the strawberry festival at the Franklin Farmer’s Market on Saturday and already had two…
Back in February I stumbled across The Homestead Experiment. JulieAnn and I share a lot of the same philosophies and goals relating to modern living and living slowly. It’s a challenge sometimes to marry the two, but like JulieAnn and her family, Chris and…
Chris re-built Mackenzie’s garden box on Sunday night and created a little arrangement for her that we call “Mackenzie’s garden.” She had so much putting the dirt in the boxes and planting them up. She even picked out the orange tomato cage. Mackenzie is…