On a family hike today I found a small cave that I had to go into and explore. The cave wasn't as big a I would have liked but it was still really cool. My favorite thing about the cave was the bat that

Today I saw some Crocuses in bloom next to our back porch so I took a picture of them to share with you. Two years ago we planted one bulb in this spot and now there are four of them. There are also some

It has been seven months since hurricane Harvey hit the coast of Texas and we have all just kind of forgotten about all of them by now. There were several great ministries that helped all of the people

After going through all of our seeds this winter we found some seeds that we weren't going to be planting this year. We took all of those seeds and put them into a quart Ziploc bag and just kind of forgot

As I was looking through the herb cabinet I saw a jar of sassafras root that we harvested from our pasture so I thought that I would make some root beer. Sassafras makes amazing root beer even though recently

This is the nicest day we have had all year, about 75F. As I was walking around I saw some daffodils coming through the ground and several patches of white clover. The daffodils haven't stated to bloom

We received Barry the Bee in the mail a couple days ago and just finally got around to giving him a tour of the homestead. Barry the Bee was supposed to be given a tour of our homestead by @shalomacres

Today was demolding day for the sausages. About seven weeks ago @shalomacres, @beatitudes8, and I made summer sausage off of a cow that we butchered and some lamb and some deer meat. Here is the post on

Last week we planted all of the cabbage and the lettuce and now we actually have several cabbages growing. Today I had nothing better to do so I got the soil ready for the tomatoes and peppers. We are

Yesterday I set my crayfish trap down in a creek near our house. Since it is February 9th I didn't expect to catch very many of them on the first day. This is the spot on the creek where I set my trap

In October of last year we planted the greenhouse with lots of winter greens so we could have a salad garden. It did really good for the first part of the year but now most of the plants are dead. Since

Since we enjoy fishing in our pond I thought that I would make a couple of crayfish traps so we could have some larger bait. We use worms most of the time when we fish and we catch lots of perch with them.

Around the same time I got my pink banana seeds I also received my Orange Masters Pomegranate seeds and today I finally got around to planting them. This is a miniature pomegranate plant so that way during

Well we have made it several of the winter months without getting the flu but now February is here and almost the entire family is down with the flu. Out of the seven people in our family five of us were

Well, after almost two weeks of kitchen remodeling we are finally finished and we are very happy with the results. We did not tear out anything or do demolition instead we just painted the ENTIRE kitchen.

Here is my entry for @beatitudes8 who has the best fire contest. There were some cool fires on there and I recommend checking them out. We had a bunch of junk wood and some other stuff on our burn pile

A pond is definitely a must have for any homestead. Without our pond we would be hauling hundreds of gallons of water every week to our animals. Our pond is 22 feet deep in the center and it is covering

As I looked at the sunset tonight I just thought that I would share with yall. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for upvoting and viewing.

After filling our new raised beds it was time to plant them. Only two of them are complete and one more is under construction. We are planting one in Golden Raspberries, one in strawberries and the other

It has been a while since I walked down to take a look at our summer sausage so today I thought I would go take a look and see how it was doing. The sausage has grown a lot of mold on it which enhances