The perfect tea
Posted in General on Sep 29th, 2009
I’m posting over at Homemakers Who Work today on how to make teas, infusions, and decoctions. Join me over there…
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
The 5 kingdoms
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Home Schooling, Mothering, Pets on Sep 25th, 2009
Kaia has been studying the 5 kingdoms of life at school for the past 4 weeks. So, we thought we’d take a trip out to the Nature Center to see what in the Animal, Plant, and Fungus kingdoms we could find. Poor little papa peacock is moulting and has no tail feathers. But you see [...]
And the winner is…
Posted in General on Sep 21st, 2009
LOUISE! Kaia loved all of the names for our sweet car chicken. She couldn’t choose between 6 of her favorites, so we put the final choices in a hat and she picked out Louise! I think it fits her perfectly! She’s a feisty little hen that would definitely chose a convertible given the opportunity. So, [...]
Today I’m posting about crafting herbal teas and have a contest over at Homemakers Who Work. And there is still time to enter the Name that Chicken contest, too. So get your entries in!
Heidi’s Home!
Posted in building our home, Mothering on Sep 15th, 2009
YAY! We are so excited to have our friend Heidi back home after 3 months overseas! She was nannying for a family in Scotland and we missed her dearly here. While she was gone, we had grand plans to transform her little cabin. Well, we all know how our grand plans tend to take much [...]
Traveling Chickens and Contest Time
Posted in Chickens/Ducks on Sep 11th, 2009
I headed in the house after picking up Kaia from school today. She took a while getting her stuff gathered up and then followed me into the house a while later. When she finally came in she said, “Mom, there is a chicken in the car. I tried to get her out, but she wanted [...]
#*%$%&#& Bear!!
Posted in Chickens/Ducks on Sep 11th, 2009
Well, that funny little bear that was knocking over my chicken food bin decided it was hungry. Wed. night, at about 1:30 Suki started going crazy. She was inside for the night (dumb me for keeping her in) and was whining and pacing at the door. Toby went and let her out and heard a [...]
Posted in Organic Gardening on Sep 9th, 2009
Just took 7 quarts of potato leek soup out of the canner!! Mmmm, Mmmmm, Gooood!
Winterizing
Posted in building our home on Sep 9th, 2009
This weekend we got started on the project we’ve been dreading for the last year… winterizing the house. With a cordwood house, there is a lot of shrinking in the wood that goes on the first year. So, after the first winter, you need to go back and seal the nooks and crannies that have [...]
rhythm to our day
Posted in Home Schooling, Mothering, Sustainable Living on Sep 6th, 2009
I’m a creature of habit. I like things organized. I like routine. Yet, my life has little of this. So, with Kaia starting the first grade and homeschooling part time, I thought it might be nice to create a basic rhythm that we can count on. Even if things get adjusted here and there, we [...]
Building a Fairy Garden
Posted in Mothering on Sep 5th, 2009
When Kaia saw the Fairy Garden Challenge over at The Magic Onions, she just had to take part. We started by going for a hike into the woods to the area where fairies have been known to party. We gathered some fairy moss, with their permission, some acorns and mushrooms and headed back to the [...]
Daily to do list
Posted in General on Sep 5th, 2009
I’m posting over at Homemakers Who Work today about creating a “to do” list for kids. See you over there…..
August Garden Roundup
Posted in Organic Gardening on Sep 1st, 2009
Things are petering out in the garden…. well, I’m letting them peter out. The weeds have taken over, the tomatoes gave in to blight, the green beans are collapsing. The squashes have all succomb to mildew of some sort. The chard and kale are still going strong. There’s probably 10# of it out there, but [...]