Our first seven months of homesteading brought us bell peppers, melons, and stevia plants. A new crop of kittens and 9 new chickens. We had 12 chicks die due to cold weather, and regularly had a raccoon visit our chicken pen! (thankfully leaving with nothing)
Zinnias, lilies, and marigolds rounded out our flower pot additions as well as the wild honeysuckle, pink roses, red fluted flowers and black eyed susans that lined our driveway.
We learned how to build a fire, dodge a rooster, and navigate an uphill mud pit of a driveway.
We cooked beans, eggs, and rice endlessly, collected water in town and prayed for cool nights to sleep in.
We built a composting bin and filled it with egg shells and fruit scraps in exchange for black diamond soil.
We learned to recognize the smell of rain, the brightness of planets, and the identification of different animal tracks.
Snakes drifted in and out of our property and birds flew over head at a number we had not seen in the city. Squirrels and rabbits made their hiding places nestled in our jungle of greenery and our three dogs regularly tried to oust them from these spaces.
We got hot, cold, dirty, tired, hopeless, hopeful. We moved too fast. We moved too slow. We went right when we should have gone left. We depended on each other and we depended on no one.
I bartered for jam and wood siding while he built a barn and drove a truck. The kids collected eggs and swam in mud puddles.
Snow fell and tornadoes touched down and we lost pictures of the past, all while building the future.
We were homesteaders and we were gonna make it or die trying!
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linking with Barn Hop, FarmGirl Friday
Zinnias, lilies, and marigolds rounded out our flower pot additions as well as the wild honeysuckle, pink roses, red fluted flowers and black eyed susans that lined our driveway.
We learned how to build a fire, dodge a rooster, and navigate an uphill mud pit of a driveway.
We cooked beans, eggs, and rice endlessly, collected water in town and prayed for cool nights to sleep in.
We built a composting bin and filled it with egg shells and fruit scraps in exchange for black diamond soil.
We learned to recognize the smell of rain, the brightness of planets, and the identification of different animal tracks.
Snakes drifted in and out of our property and birds flew over head at a number we had not seen in the city. Squirrels and rabbits made their hiding places nestled in our jungle of greenery and our three dogs regularly tried to oust them from these spaces.
We got hot, cold, dirty, tired, hopeless, hopeful. We moved too fast. We moved too slow. We went right when we should have gone left. We depended on each other and we depended on no one.
I bartered for jam and wood siding while he built a barn and drove a truck. The kids collected eggs and swam in mud puddles.
Snow fell and tornadoes touched down and we lost pictures of the past, all while building the future.
We were homesteaders and we were gonna make it or die trying!
linking with Barn Hop, FarmGirl Friday