This year I pulled out a lot of carrots — too much for us to eat right away. I decided to store them in a way that my neighbors (who are garden masters!) always store their carrots for the winter. First my daughters and I took all the greens off of the veggies… The chicks […]
Last harvest of the year from the garden. I was able to get lots of carrots, beets and spaghetti squash. I only was able to grow 3 little pumpkins – which is a good thing there were 3 so that the kiddos wouldn’t fight! I LOVE pulling my carrots out and seeing the crazy things […]
This year I was able to grow LOTS of herbs. It was the best! I had a monster parsley plant, basil and cilantro. I used most of my basil — didn’t eat much cilantro (I mostly just grew it to see if I could…and I can!) — I also didn’t use much parsley and still […]
This is Broody…she has this name for a dang good reason…she is constantly brooding! This girl! I’ve read a bunch on having a broody hen: take her constantly out of the nesting box, put ice bottles under her so she doesn’t get warm, put her in a separate cage to piss her off until she […]
Fall is my second favorite season…(Spring is my 1st, if you were wondering)…but boy do I look forward to Fall! I love the smells, the Ah-mazing fall colors, the crisp air, wearing jackets and layers, AND especially not having to mow the lawn anymore! So many valid reasons! These colors are almost the colors of […]
I changed our curriculum a lot this year…because I’m the teacher…and when I see something not working, I can make changes! (It is so nice!) Our biggest change was starting with the co-op. This meant we no longer to needed to focus on a couple subjects (Spanish, art, science, geography)…and so we only focus on […]
The garden has had a couple weeks to repair after the momma deer came in and ruined a couple things. She ate my whole huckleberry bush (my first time planting one…and it was HUGE!), all my strawberry leaves, my beet tops, my whole butternut squash plant and finished off my amazing zucchini plant. BUT I […]
We were finally able to start our commonwealth group (HVZA)! My kids were so excited for the first day to start. When we got there, we started with prayer as a group…then we split and dove right in to Spanish. It was such a great class! Then the girls did an IEW writing class, which […]
Ever since the little chicks’ traumatizing night when 5 got murdered…they have been in with the big girls. They have actually done very well! I have always been so nervous about adding new birds to existing ones because I know there is a pecking order and I don’t want the new ones, especially the littles, […]
The commonwealth we joined is made up with only 10 families per group. So far there are 3 groups of 10 families. I am part of the Gimel group. It is set up according to the ways that they put Mormon pioneer families together so that no family would be forgotten and all families had […]