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A Mundane Day in the Life of a Modern Homesteader
5:45 am
A Mundane Day in the Life of a Modern Homesteader
5:45 am
Wake boys
Breakfast (biscuits and gravy)
Small suddenly wants to be a cold lunch
(homemade pb&j, carrots and grapes. That's all he wanted)
(homemade pb&j, carrots and grapes. That's all he wanted)
Medium misses the bus. Road Trip!
Turns out the radiator in the truck has a hole in it
45 minutes later, fire has gone cold
Feeding Time
We do not have trash service here. Have to burn. We use feed bags rather than buying trash bags.
Lagoon escapes!
To turn water on I have to crawl under the house
First real dirt of the day
Chat while water fills
Cleaned out. Now that all we have is square bales and grain.
Road trip! This time in the car and into the city
an hour and a half later. . .
Barter comes through
Cut up tomatoes for roasting
Canning jelly
Husband knocks on roof, expects me to help him
Light my stove
Bell pepper Jelly
Simmer beans
A small bland lunch
Garlic planted a year ago now sprouting
Ride please
Needs to be moved to the cattle pen.
Truck won't start
Inside to check on roasting tomatoes
read emails
read news
Truck starts!
Roasted tomatoes
Husband demands more help
I hold the board
Hide soaking
Throw ball please
Assuming this is spinach
Roasted tomato sauce
Canning chili
Read some blogs
Boys home
Road trip to the town library where I meet up with Large
sunset on the way home
Late feeding
No eggs. Seen 12 this week, but that's it. Added light, changed feed, brought roosters back in, no change
Throw to cows
Small helps
angst
Medium ignores me
Small's favorite dinner
dessert
attempting to get out the backdoor
Homework
movie with the boys
boys to bed
now I get to cuddle with Husband and watch a horror flick
Late night fire
15 comments:
Whew!!! I'm thinking... am I sure I'm ready for all this? Nahhh, Just kidding! But I do feel inclined to think about a nap now. LOL Love the picture day idea.
Naps are great! I can take those in the winter. But this was a slow day, kind of like today is going. No canning right now, maybe later, as I am working on that whole I want to start my own business thing.
OK, I watched the video before going through this and had absolutely no idea what the breakfast food was. Kinda thought you'd had some sort of foam/meringue type food. But biscuits and gravy sounds good. It was nice seeing that, thanks. A reminder of the type of life I want one day.
What was that dessert? something chocolate?
The dessert is a brownie bar with a cookie topping
i am exhausted! but i am already exhausted so maybe it isn't as bad as it really looks, Phelan? oh gurl - i knew you rocked hard but if this is an ordinary day - you really get some props from us!
oh please put up a post about napping. you need one. and so do i after reading this!
you rock, my dear friend! you rock!
your friend,
kymber
Normally I don't leave the homestead 3x a week, let alone in a day. So no, not that normal.
that's a lot in one day. I'm sure it ebbs and flows. Mine do as well. I'm hoping I can get to start a fire in the morning one day on our own homestead.
Oh I am so tired now after reading your blog... What type of hide are you soaking? We have the hide from Bubba, our first bottle calf, salted and in the freezer (he was butchered a week ago). Lyndsey wants to make a big pillow out of it, but I have no idea where to start.
wow, a busy day indeed. I would do a 'day in the life' but 8 shots of my monitor at work are not that exciting.
The hide is cattle. I'll have a hide processing post up in a bit. I still have a larger cow hide in the garage and 5 sheep hides to do.
I have only one word:
Jealous.
How I dream of having a life that simple. :)
Can't wait for the hide processing posts!
Laura
Last year when my hens quit laying or laid only one egg every few days (from the entire group) I read somewhere that rabbit pellets have the green stuff hens miss when it gets cold and dark. I tried it and wham those ladies were back to laying - not like in spring but respectable for winter. No extra lights cause then we couldn't afford that extra expense. This year I finally *had* to put them in a pen and they stopped laying. Some of it might have been molting but that sudden? So I added some rabbit feed it seems to help. We've been trying to carry garden cleanup to them and veg trimmmings but it isn't easy. The a few pellets added to their feed is much easier. They are mostly alfalfa so if you already have any feed with that you might give it a try.
I tried the rabbit feed, thank you. Didn't work. And these guys are supposed to be prolific winter layers. I did add a few younger hens to the mix. I wonder if they have matched cycles.
It's nice to see you again Stephanie
Our chickens have just about stopped laying as well - only 2-4 eggs a day when I should be getting 10-14. Didn't have this problem last year - strange.
Thanks for the day in the life photos. Similar life here but without the large livestock and one less boy. Soon I will need to add milking the goat to the daily chores.
I enjoy reading your blog and the realness of it all. Thanks for not sugar coating the daily grind.
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