rural living

What the pope says about rural living.

Nicky, just in the Nick of time

We added this quarter horse to our menagerie; in hopes of giving the children riding lessons and more opportunities than we had with our pony. She is a very old, and was used as a training horse. She is what is concerned "dead broke". Just what we need with a crew of children running around.

Saving the farm

Another reason why as Catholics we need to pull together to save the small family farms.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995484/posts?page=1

Day 2 canning strawberry jam

Girls Day camp

All this week I am running a day camp for girls. We are learning different life skills everyday, as well as nature journaling, Here are some photos from the first two days. The first day was knitting and herb identifying. Today was canning strawberry and pineapple jams.

Barnless Bill

Since we have taken over Oliver Hill, my husband Bill has been upset with our lack of out buildings. He has nick named himself "Barnless Bill". Now barns are not just something pretty to look at, they are very useful. Where does one keep the hay with no barn. So we improvised, we have a small shed, we purchased a canvas garage, but yet we need a barn. Now barns cost a lot of money and time to build, since we have neither we had to come up with a better plan. So here is my great idea, best news of all it added alot of value to our property. We have sitting on our property a 1981 double wide. Now it is not offensive to look at, actually from the outside it is fine, but I did not intend to live in it, so we are in the process of converting it to a barn. This is so much fun! I love using up your resources, finding new jobs for otherwise useless objects. I have been researching cupolas, weather vains, and in general what makes a barn look like a barn. Stay tuned I am going to upload photos of the existing barn and the barns of my dreams and attempt to mesh the two.

Welcome

We are so excited to start this blog and give folks a peak into our daily life. Basically we started a year ago turning this old and run down farm house into a liveable and working farm.

We have accomplished much, we have much yet to do, and we welcome you into our daily life of raising our children and tending our garden, living the liturigal year, and of course building a agrarian lifestyle.