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Showing posts with label Day in the life. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Day in the Life

Here is Dec. photo day in the life. Yesterday wasn't the best day for a photo blog. It rained most of the day. Which is wonderful! We got almost and inch and a half! But I wasn't going to take my camera outside and get it wet. So this is a short one.

Start day 530 am

Morning rooster


lots of coffee, and it's raining!


feed puppies


Boys waiting on the bus (no Small is not picking his nose or giving you the finger)


Feed rooster
as you can see he is doing better


I said MINE!


Outside chores no photos, I was very wet (feeding cows, chickens, rabbit and pig mainly)

Clean up the 6am mess from Medium making Christmas cards


Let puppies go out


Pack a box to ship to one of my lucky readers


Hang stockings


Go through boys clothes and shoes for donation (3 boxes)


String the ornaments that were too heavy for my little tree


Put out some decorations that the boys have made
Large piece of tree branch, paint, squiggle eyes, an old sock and Ribbon for bow tie


Wasn't very hungry for lunch, so a few pieces of Deer Sausage


Time to obsess over several handmade gifts



Like the pants? I think plaid thins out my legs ~ inset hysterical laughter here~


Somewhere in all this making, my little brother's friend shows up with a trailer full of fire wood for us. We unload it from the road and chuck it over the fence. Ground was too wet to drive a truck over.


What could they be?


Warm enough not to have a fire, cleaning time!




Then Husband comes homes and decides we need to move the wood burner. ugh.

Time to make dinner


re-fried beans, before and after

Please refrain from commenting on what the after looks like because it was tasty.


Dinner!
 All ingredients, with the exception of the tortilla, which I purchase from a local woman, was grown or raised on the homestead.


Little Brother's friend shows up again to hang out. I put the boys to bed and watch a horror movie with his wife. They leave around 11 pm, and I pass out on the couch.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Let's try this again; Day in the Life

ok, no more videos. Some are having problems viewing, so let's do static photos.

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)



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


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