This weekend was SO productive! Today it was my Instant Pot that got a work out! I started off the morning pulling meat off the bone from the hen I cooked down last night. I’ve always heard that old hens are tougher and only good for things like dumplings. After having to pull those tough…
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Butchering Day
Today we butchered chickens for the first time. We’ve been talking about butchering a few of our older Rhode Island Reds for a little while now and finally had a weekend we could do it. The fact that we had two roosters hovering over 16 hens kinda sped up the decision. It’d gotten to the…
Read MoreBring on 2020!
As I sit here thinking about the new year and all of the new plans and possibilities I have for it, I can’t help but to be thankful for everything that 2019 brought us. It was this same time last year that I started to commit a little more to doing a blog (something I’ve…
Read MoreChickens, opossums, and skunks…oh my!
This weekend was promising to be a busy one! Friday included work, pick up the young ‘un, grab some dinner to go, pick up our grocery pick up order, home to feed animals, eat dinner, bake some cupcakes, and relax a wee bit before an even busier Saturday. Things went mostly as planned and then…
Read MoreImpatiently Waiting for Spring
We had a couple of days of wonderful spring weather last week. And then, of course, it tried to go to crap this weekend! We didn’t let the wind on Thursday or the storms on Saturday evening ruin our spring plans though! Last year is the first year that I’d say we had a successful…
Read MoreTwo Years Ago
Two years ago this week, this was our new morning view. A much different view than the one of our busy street in the center of town that we had just the morning before. Even though we had a houseful of boxes to unpack, we wanted to take our time and enjoy the reasons we…
Read MoreA Bittersweet Week
My week started off a little bittersweet. Our first baby-to-freezer calf went off to slaughter first thing Monday morning. My husband’s not as sentimental about it as I have been. No, he’s not the first of our cattle to go to slaughter or the sale barn. No, he wasn’t a pet. In fact, there’s probably…
Read MoreRainy Day Honey-Do’s
My husband works every other weekend and alternates between day shift and night shift on a monthly basis. On the weekends that he is off, I usually work Saturday mornings. It cuts down on the time we get to spend together, but it definitely helps out where the kiddo is concerned and not having to…
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