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Raising Feeder Pigs: The First Few Days
We didn't expect to have to care for weaner, feeder pigs through temperatures this cold.
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Pigs on the Homestead
Well, it’s official…We have pigs on the homestead! This is an incredibly exciting and nerve-wracking venture for us (particularly me). It’s a big step in a forward direction! This has been a long-time coming, but it still feels like a snap decision in some ways. We wanted to get some kind of larger livestock by 2018, but then we had the fire, and then I got pregnant, so that plan flew out the window. We had to nix 2019 right off the bat because we knew we’d have a new baby, and I wouldn’t be able to handle that kind of extra workload. 2020, that was the new plan. But…
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Big Changes
By the end of June, I think this is going to feel like a whole new homestead. There are some big changes coming this spring! In the last month, we’ve made several major decisions. We ordered a tractor, we’re getting pigs, and we ordered chickens and turkeys! The tractor is going to (hopefully) allow us to take care of some bigger projects this year. Recently, I mentioned that we ordered a greenhouse as well, so things are really taking on a different feel! The decision to buy a tractor was sudden, and yet not really. We have talked about it sort of off-handedly in the past. We didn’t have the…
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2021: The First Quarter
Can you believe that we’re through the first quart of 2021 already? Because I can’t. It’s April already, and I feel like yet another year is flying by. I haven’t written a basic update in awhile, so I think I’m about due! I know, I’ve been shared some posts recently of projects I’ve been working on, but I haven’t really gone into what our days have been like and what our plans are for this year. To start, we’ve been a strange kind of busy. Lots of projects around the house that I didn’t really plan to do but that needed doing, plenty of relaxing craft time, and lots of…
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Bunks
Sometimes a room needs more than a good cleaning...
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Another Sewing Room Makeover
During the month of December, I worked on not one, not two, but three projects that I did NOT want to do. Two were urgent and out of necessity (a broken toilet and a broken countertop). The third was another sewing room makeover. Did I want it done? Yes. Did I want to work on it? No. Honestly, I had been putting off this project for a long time. Partially because I thought it would be expensive to do, and partially because I knew it would be a really big project. It ended up being a much bigger project than I had even anticipated, but I actually picked the perfect…
