Monthly Archives: March 2021

Sipping Chocolate

Posted on March 31, 2021 by dep31

Sometimes, a mom needs chocolate. I’m a hot chocolate addict, and sipping chocolate is somewhere between that and ganache that’s (barely) pourable. I use this recipe: Real French Sipping Chocolate. My steps are pretty easy: put chocolate and cream in … Continue reading →

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PUD in the pasture

Posted on March 30, 2021 by dep31

I was putting my greenhouse starts out in the sunshine for a little “hardening off” therapy, when there was an almighty BANG from the pasture side of our place. I thought, somebody drove by and took a shot at my … Continue reading →

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Life skills, rooster level

Posted on March 25, 2021 by dep31

One way to tell if you’ve achieved true homestead status is if people start offering to give you animals. Generally we say no; we have a limited amount of pasture and feed budget. Today, a friend texted and asked if … Continue reading →

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No more horses!

Posted on March 18, 2021 by dep31

While Rosebud was out training Lady (the horse she borrowed for a couple weeks), a man pulled into our driveway and spent a few minutes trying to talk her into buying another horse! Apparently his father recently passed a young … Continue reading →

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And so it begins…

Posted on March 17, 2021 by dep31

I’m attempting to extend my growing season this year, so I’m doing all sorts of things frowned on by local conventional wisdom, attempting some tricks I’ve read about, and generally seeing how much learning experience and gardening grief I can … Continue reading →

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The Ivy Wars

Posted on March 13, 2021 by dep31

The past several days, I have been fighting what I hope I will look back on as the defining battle of the war I’ve been waging on the ivy. English Ivy is invasive, treacherous, and deadly to everything else in … Continue reading →

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First flowers of spring

Posted on March 9, 2021 by dep31

The weather is warming up, and the first crocuses have started popping up in the lawn. These delightful surprises sing, “Springtime is coming!” I hope to plant some more crocus bulbs in the lawn this year; there’s only a few … Continue reading →

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More planting!

Posted on March 8, 2021 by dep31

An older gent at church heard that I was looking for some seedling containers, and dropped off enough to fill most of a seedling tray, plus bulbs for elephant garlic and walking onions on my porch after church! The bulbs … Continue reading →

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It is to laugh.

Posted on March 7, 2021 by dep31

I have discovered that I rather enjoy our elderly “country” neighbors. There are two older gentlemen who live on adjacent properties that cracked me up today. The first lives across the pasture from us. He and his wife have long … Continue reading →

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And now this…

Posted on March 6, 2021 by dep31

Rosebud is currently living a teenage girl’s dream. She [temporarily] has a horse. Lady is not our horse. She belongs to a family friend, who would like Lady to be exercised and worked, but can’t do it himself because of … Continue reading →

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