Enjoy this peek at our week! This week has been a busy one as we started our outdoor to do list, dealt with the oldest country kid’s increasingly bad behavior (he is on the spectrum), and hosted house guest from out of state. But…
Raising poultry, such as chickens and ducks, take a lot of investment in time and care. The last thing anyone wants is to loose a flock member to a predator. But ever Spring and Fall, raptors migrate in great numbers. And while you can…
Enjoy this peek at our week! The ever changing Michigan weather has finally cause health havoc on the homestead this week. Say that 10 times fast! It was a constant game of passing the pink eye and some horrible sinus cold thingy to each other….
Enjoy this peek at our week! Hip-pity hop-pity Easter/Spring break has come and gone one the homestead. It was a brisk week filled with childhood joys, cute critters, and a few (mis)Adventures. The oldest country kid is struggling with behavior at school, so when he…
Enjoy this peek at our week! Sugaring season has come to an end this week. The weather was still cooperating, but we are just worn out! Best season we have ever had here on the homestead. We even made enough to sell a little syrup…
Enjoy this peek at our week! This week has been chilly but productive. Sugaring season is still flowing, but this girl is getting tired! We have more then enough syrup for our family so we are gearing up to sell some syrup and some maple…
Enjoy this peek at our week! We are still in the throws of sugaring season!!! This year has been steady and doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon. Since we have already made enough syrup for our own use, we are going to sell some…
Enjoy this peek at our week! This past week has been one that has stretched me to the end of my rope. With a sick kid (who has been sick for over a week), sugaring season in full swing, and trying to keep everything going…….
Enjoy this peek at our week! It’s been a spring like week for the most part, which means our sugaring taps have been flowing with sap. We did have a nice dumping of snow, again, which thankfully melted within 24 hours. I am seriously getting…
Enjoy this peek at our week! I am so over rain. I have been soaked to the bones this week trying to get things done and make maple syrup. And while the taps are running great, we are dealing with flooding all around us. I…
Enjoy this peek at our week! Winter, spring, no winter, just kidding it’s spring….. We went from knee deep in snow to seeing grass peeking at us again. Sugaring season is starting up, again. With the temps fluctuating the sap flows, freezes, and starts up…
Let’s Hatch Chicks! is a delightful new book by author Lisa Steele. While a departure from her first three books, which are geared toward adult readers, Let’s Hatch Chicks! is a heart warming tale of Violet the hen and her quest for motherhood. This book…
It’s time to take a peek at our week! Sugaring off started this week! We got our sap evaporator up and running! Mother Nature stepped back in and froze everything back over, but we managed to make about a 1/2 gallon of finished Maple syrup…
It’s time to take a peek at our week! We start the week off with snow, which is gone now, but I am sure will return. The unseasonably warm temps have started our sugaring season early this year. The test tap we put in last…
It’s time to take a peek at our week! It’s warm, nope it’s cold, oh wait, it’s warm again. Just another week in Michigan! We had to turn the heat lamp back on over the waterer to keep it from freezing, only to turn…
