Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Thanksgiving. Kind Of.

Around here we refuse to celebrate Christmas early.  Because we think Thanksgiving counts, too.  And because my kids in year round school get 3 weeks off in December so if we start doing all the fun stuff in November then I am screwed the kids are bored during break. So we take time for Thanksgiving.  […]

Tina To The Rescue.

We follow old school rules around here.  With winter approaching and forage decreasing, anyone who can be eaten or sold will be eaten or sold.  OJ went to the flea market. He was a friendly rooster but he enjoyed taking the hens all the way down to the end of the driveway.  We have sacrificed […]

Fall Back.

Can we fall back yet?  ‘Cause I’ve been leanin’ in until it hurts. First, the summer garden was putting a lot of pressure on the nightly dinner plan.  After all, I was running out of menu ideas to use up the eggplant, peppers, and cherry tomatoes that were still coming in.

Makin Bacon.

I have a freezer full of bacon.  That I never make. Because who’s going to get burned from grease splatters while cooking the bacon? Me. And who’s going to scrub the grease and bacon bits from the pan used on the stove or the plate used in the microwave? Me. And who’s going to have […]

Piece of Sunday Peace.

I have a lot to tell you.  For the past 6 weeks, I haven’t been at a loss for words.  Just at a loss for time.  But don’t worry. I took lots of pictures and jotted down a bunch of scribbly notes that I will not be able to read or probably even find when […]

Freakonomics at the Farmers Market.

So the older ones finally started school.  I’d share a picture of them, standing on the porch and holding homemade signs out of my expensive scrapbooking paper stating the grade that they are entering this year.  Except I didn’t take any.  I didn’t know that was “in”.  I had no idea that was all the […]

Pond of Pilfer and Plunder.

Remember this? Well, that Mother’s Day present actually did make it into the ground. Since the preformed pond liner was off Freecycle and the slave labor was coerced by guilt donated, the real trick was to get all the landscaping for as free and cheap as possible.  Because nothing ruins a gift faster than a […]

A Poem From Penny.

Give me your pitted…. your cracked and mushy, Your wilted…. and woebegone, too far gone to eat.

End of Times.

Well, it has been a summer of rain and cool temperatures.  I finally took notice when I was mowing the yard, in the middle of July, on an overcast 70 degree afternoon, and barely breaking a sweat.  That isn’t normal.  Normally, just thinking about mowing the lawn in North Carolina on July 12th at 2pm […]

In Over Your Fleece.

I had it all under control.  Kind of. I had 2 sheep. And 2 fleeces.

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