Good Grief! I didn't realize how long it's been since I looked at my blog! There is soo many posts I have missed! I also have a new follower , welcome Roxie ☺ Check out her blog it's amazing, vintage and pink everything girls love! I have been busy getting my kiddos back to school! School supplys, clothes, shoes, and all that good stuff! The weather has finally cooled off to the 90's! No rain yet, but I will take this weather without the rain happily!!! I am getting an egg incubator this week for my birthday! My plan is to try and hatch out my favorite chicken (Squirty the cochin) eggs. The problem is that little girl won't come out of the coop! She is scared to death of the rooster! So I'm not sure if many of her eggs are fertile! but it will be fun to watch the eggs anyway ☺ The sunflower in the picture warms my heart! It's the first and only one to ever grow here, It lived through chicken dust bathes and drought and I love it's happy yellow face!!!!!! Enjoy the day!
Thank you Kelly for the sweet comments on my blog! I am going to list you in my "favorites" because I love what you and your family are doing..getting back to the simple and self sustaining life! I believe there are many people who wish to do this, even if they are only to be able to "buy" it. I find this life fascinating and the simple pleasures are the BEST! From one sweetie to another~~~~Roxie P.s. I LOVE chickens! (even tho I don't have any, yet)
ReplyDeleteOh thank you Roxie you are truly sweet! I can't wait to see your chicken coop when you do get chickens! They are such a joy to have!
DeleteI see a scythe handle (snath) in the photo, do you use it or is it decoration? I cut my own hay with a long bladed one and weeds with a short heavy blade.
ReplyDeleteThe scythe was my husbands grandfathers. It is huge! We were given his saw, pitchfork, a big tree saw, and the scythe. My husband treated the wood and hung it on the chicken coop. So they are decoration. I thought it would be neat to use the tree saw to cut down trees, but my husband likes his chain saw ☺ Using the scythe for weeding seems like good exercise. Way to go!!!
DeleteHi Kelly, I received a comment from that sweetie pie Roxie and she told me about your blog. So here I am . . . to encourage, support and be a friend. I love meeting new bloggers and following their journey. Your adventure sounds wonderful and just the thing I might do if I were young and starting out again. I have always thought that living on a farm would be the perfect life. Raising your own vegetables, putting up canned goods (nothing is prettier than filled mason jars lining a pantry)and raising chickens . . . I'm very proud of your choices. I believe that children raised on farms learn so much about responsibility. There are chores that just need to be done everyday. I am very happy for you and I'm looking forward to becoming great blogging friends. Come on over my welcome mat is always out, Connie :)
ReplyDeleteHi Connie, thank you so much for the kind comment! And thanks to sweet Roxie, I have found a new blog friend!!! I took a few minutes this morning to check out your blogs! WOW you are creative, and I love your music blog! I just started playing the mountain dulcimer about six months ago, I just recieved my grandfathers fiddle, and my daughter is getting a ukelele for her 7th birthday! So we are going to have a backporch band, now if I could teach the goats to dance that would be something ;)
DeleteHi Kelly, thank you for visiting my blog and for your sweet comment. I was so very happy to see you there, this morning. I'll bet a rag bucket might be just a handy dandy thing to have around a farm.
DeleteYour back-porch band sounds wonderful . . . you may not teach your goats to dance, but music may help them give more milk. I had a friend that raised goats, they are such sweet creatures. She doesn't live around here anymore, they sold their farm and moved out of state, but she use to make an amazing cheesecake from cheese she made from her goat milk, and I remember eating goat milk fudge as a kid.
Also, before I sign off, I want to say thank you for following my blog. . . have a lovely day. Well, I'm off to our county fair today, where I will be playing and singing with the Old Time Fiddlers Band, Connie :)
Hi Kelly, what a great picture of the sunflower. Hope that Squirty wasn't too shy around your rooster so you get some little baby Squirties running around. Is she still broody?
ReplyDeleteThank you, she isn't broody right now. She lays about 12-18 eggs and goes broody again. She's been pretty consistent with her broody behavior. I got an incubator yesterday and put the eggs in last night! Four of the eggs are Squirty's, fingers crossed that they are fertile ☺
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