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 […]
We are really focusing on doing a field trip every Friday. With our school schedule being only a 4 day a week schedule…sometimes it is hard, but we have a great home-school community that plans field trips on most Fridays. So we are able to join in when we can! A couple Fridays ago we […]
As you can kinda tell I love how people lived from the past…I love to study pioneers, history, past forms of gardening, natural medicines, raising food, being self-sustaining and most of all being prepared! One way that takes me back to the past is our yearly trip to the mountain man rendezvous. I have been […]
“Commonwealth… a community founded for the common good.” I put the definition here because I didn’t know what commonwealth meant at first (except the name does say it all)…and maybe YOU are wondering what it means too. I dunno???!!! Sooooo we are trying something new this year and we joined a commonwealth. I am beyond […]
I have “tried” to grow a garden for the past 8 years! I don’t have a natural green thumb, so every year I change things up to hopefully a better garden. I have had total bombs…minimal success…and maybe once or twice I actually had a great garden. Well this year I thought it was a […]