There's usually something to surprise me first thing in the morning. Fresh snow, a visiting hawk or just a really beautiful sunrise when I throw open the curtains to greet the day. This morning's surprise was that Fred and the girls were out before I was, which means I accidentally left their coop open last …
I would love to be out at sunrise to take these photos in person and I have no good excuse except that the roads are treacherous right now and I'd have to leave well before sunrise to be positioned for shots like these. So far we've found four of the local live web cams, mostly …
I admit it's a bit ironic of me to write a post on my homesteading blog analyzing the idea of where the limit is on this whole prepping for disaster thing. Most homesteader types take pride in being ready for all kinds of hard times, it's kind of part of the whole lifestyle. Yet as …
Continue reading Adventures in Prepping: How Much is Enough?
I'm not having much luck doing Christmas shopping this year. Since I am trying to avoid certain death out there alone on the icy roads I thought I'd do some online perusing but quickly realized that there's a reason I recently avowed never to shop for gifts online again! For one, you can not judge …
Continue reading Adventures in Christmas Shopping: I’d Rather Stay In Bed
I happened to look out the window last night just in time to see them silhouetted against the sunset way off in the distance and I knew right away from their outline that these weren't cranes or herons or ducks or geese. My beautiful trumpeter swans seem to have followed me back home. 🙂 Flock …
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