Over the last few days an older picture has begun recirculating via Facebook. This picture shows hogs in some sort of metal cage. The country that the picture was taken in is often questioned, according to Hoax-Slayer when this picture…
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This is a recipe that my mom has used for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure of the origin of the recipe but I do know that she’s had the recipe for almost 40 years and the…
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So, after a series of delays and issues, our septic system was installed today. Yay? I really have mixed feelings about this but the powers that be made this a necessary step. So, big concrete tank and drain field are…
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On August 14, we had to make the difficult decision to leave our property for the remainder of the summer. This puts all our building projects behind and throws many plans into chaos and confusion. A major wildfire started by…
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With summer comes a doubling (or more) of population on the homestead. What mom and I had been doing worked fine for two adults, but wasn’t going to work with two kids. So, thus began the outhouse project. A rough…
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Once again, for the sake of additional privacy with more people we decided to build a shower enclosure for our outdoor shower. We live rough folks, but a shower is mandatory, even if it involves hauling & boiling water! We…
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Mom & I went over to the property on Thursday and stayed through Sunday morning. Spring is definitely coming! We were pleasantly surprised to see very little snow on our drive over and very little snow on our property at…
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Mom & I went out to the property on Thursday and spent the weekend. We had a long list of things to get done and some of it got done, some of it didn’t. One of the biggest chores that…
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We left town a little later than planned, but arrived at our cabin by 1:00PM. Beautiful drive and the roads were pretty clear except for at the very top of the pass, which is as we expected. The gentleman we…
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It is really hard being on one side of the mountains when your entire future is on the other side of the mountains…but that is what we’re doing at the moment. However, we have a trip planned in the next…
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