One aspect of homesteading and being frugal that is often both reviled and feted is bulk purchasing. Reviled as “hoarding” at times, or “just too expensive”, and feted as budget saving, if you can manage your finances for it. In my case, I’m damned expensive to feed. Purchasing meat — and decent quality meat —… Continue reading Printable Labels for Bulk Freezing
Among the small homesteading tasks I perform, I make Greek-style yogurt. I’ve done this for years now. (Here’s my previous post on how I make it: https://farm.firehazel.com/2019/02/24/yogurt/.) When I first started, I used regular coffee filters lining a strainer for straining the yogurt. After a while, I got frustrated with that, and acquired a HUGE… Continue reading A New Yogurt Making Tool!
I haven’t forgotten the blog. It’s just been downright hell attempting to manage everything. You might notice the date of the previous update. There have been a couple of false starts on posts since then, but I’m usually pulled off to do any billion of other things. I will say that “virtual schooling” a very… Continue reading Haven’t Forgotten I Have a Blog
Been a while since I updated here, for which I can only note that it’s been crazy. Caring for a newborn is a full-time job, and it wasn’t made easier by other goings-on. The indecisive weather caused a doe to mis-build her nest, and a litter was lost through no fault of hers. However, this… Continue reading Been a While
The hospital visit went as planned, and pretty smoothly, all things considered. As a consequence, I have spent most of the last almost four weeks doing exceptionally little of note beyond being at the beck and call of a darling little boy. I’m still limited to 10 pound lifts, and I pay for it when… Continue reading Trudging Along
Assuming the hospital doesn’t reschedule on us, it is less than 12 hours until we head there for me to be induced with SP2. I’ve done all I can to prepare the homestead for me being gone for a couple of days, and my physical capabilities being diminished for a bit after I get back.… Continue reading Count down
From a project standpoint, I routinely bite off a little more than I can chew. I’m also pretty bad about easing into new projects. So let us take a gander at what I’m working on now: You can see that the fodder is growing well enough. The two flats that are “full” will be fed… Continue reading Project Expansions
It’s winter, regardless of what the official start date is. After more or less giving up — because of shelf vs size constraints, equipment not cooperating, mold, and just not having the brain power (concussion, pregnancy) to manage it, I am back to trying fodder for the rabbits. For one, the short days mean the… Continue reading Fodder Take 2
I normally get … very irritated when one of the rabbits screams if I pick it up. For a kit, that’s a fast way to get permanently on the cull list. The last “screams every time it is so much as touched” kit was, in fact, culled. I will not put up with that. Today,… Continue reading Ow
But it’s not as cold as it could be, even if it’s an unending light rain. This last weekend was busy. I drove about 350-400 miles, split among three trips, for various reasons. First trip was to rescue to lovely Maine Coon sisters before their current family gave up and took them to a pound.… Continue reading Not such a lovely day