I have a new obsession. A week with the flu gave me ample time to explore youtube. Randomly, I came across Kirsten Dirksen with faircompanies.com. Her channel has over 914,000 subscribers. She takes her family really around the world and explores people's ideal homes or shelters. The documentaries are fabulous quality and topics discussed are simple …
OK. Starting a farm/hobby farm/or just plain hobby can be expensive. I don't care how you dice it; it's an investment. Once you build the structures that NEVER are as cheap as those crafty bloggers claim and buy your livestock (which require more than you ever imagined possible), you're broke. This is the point where …
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Jimmy and I learned how to draw blood from our goats! I know, Shocking! Ok I held the goats while Jimmy drew blood under direct supervision. We tested our herd for CAE & Johne's disease in November 2018, and the results came back clean! Getting our herd tested was a big step for us, and …
Anyone remember this dilemma of weather or not to keep the tree we affectionately refer to as 3O or 3PO? Well for now, two years later, we've chosen to keep. We spoke to 3 arborists, and ended going with an arborist who seemed the most knowledgable. We've been fertilizing 3PO at the base of the …
Every year since I was a child, we made a Christmas gift of the year. I continued the art of homemade gifts with my children. With my 2nd child I started the tradition of incorporating their footprints into an art form and gifting at each child's first Christmas year to family. I've already done the …
