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Plans for 2022
I’ve been thinking a lot about our plans for 2022. It’s been a little bit difficult to come up with something I feel is fairly solid, because we have a couple of variables that are, to some extent, unknown. But I’m doing my best to try to map out a plan for the year so we know what steps to take and when. Every year, there are several factors we take into consideration when coming up with a list of goals for the year. Finances and time commitments, as well as our desire to reach a goal are all things we need to think about when making our plans. If…
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2021: A Year in Review
2021 was a truly amazing year, filled with so many unexpected blessings!
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Feast Days
One of the things that I really loved that we did this year was celebrating Martinmas. St. Martin of Tours died November 11th, 397 A.D. He was a Roman soldier in his youth, and later became a bishop in Gaul. He was one of the first canonized saints to live a life as a Christian without facing persecution for it. (Though he did defend against heresies.) His feast day was celebrated at a time when the butchering and harvest were finished, and right before the men would go into the woods and cut wood and hunt. People would celebrate by eating a roast goose and tasting the first wine from…
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Another Season
We’re just entering yet another “season,” and it’s got me thinking a lot about how much I love how many “seasons” there are in homesteading. I know they exist in other ways of living, and we all share the four basics (summer, fall, winter, spring), even if they may look different in different parts of the world, but there’s something very different about it when you’re living with the seasons. And our faith complements that flow really well, as we have the incorporation of the liturgical year into our lives as well. For instance. Just last week, I finished “butchering season.” Now, it’s possible I’ll still be doing more butchering…
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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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Seeds, School Work, Sickness, and Planning
I’m back! Goodness, I really didn’t mean for it to be so long before I got another post up. I had started a few, but never wrapped them up, and by the time I got back to them, I decided to scrap them and start over. We’ve spent our time from the new year until now wrapped up in seeds, school work, sickness, and planning. Scott and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago about the blog and the purpose it serves, and I walked away with a deeper appreciation of why I take the time to journal all that we do, so I really hate that it…
