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Saint Johns wort. If I remember correctly it has medical uses.

Happy birthday!

So it’s been awhile since I’ve been here (2 years🥲), but baby Kathleen is now 4 years old and we moved! We went from Ray county Missouri to Cedar county, it’s almost 200 miles distance. We now live on 5 acres in a shed to house conversion. The picture is Kathleen with my neighbors bottle calf.

Berries incoming!

I didn’t see this until the 21st but today it’s sunny skies and then thunderstorms. I planted my garlic and onions and hoping to squeeze in some cukes and zukes while the baby naps.

For an update on the coop. We got a heated pipe wire, wrapped in yellow insulation and gorilla tape. The girls are loving the new coop and I’m getting plenty of eggs in the nest box. They love being able to forage instead of the dirt that they had.

I would love that! It’s one of the reasons I joined this forum and started my blog. I love meeting people of like minds. I’ll go through and list what I have so you can get an idea

:lol::lol::lol::lol::yuckyuck

If you just want them off your hands you could send some my way. I need to clean out the novels but the informative books I’m keeping for shtf

The frame for the coop itself was free and the waterer is gonna be the cup attached to a pipe. Still brainstorming how to keep it from freezing. I was thinking a bottle filled with basically homemade sea water lol. Or I heard of a metal rod that heats up to keep birdbaths from freezing but I’d...

Yes. My only biological child. She has a big brother we don’t see very often.

I ripped it out and took it to the burn pit

Figured you guys wanted to see more baby pictures. There is a bunch on the blog but here are a few recent ones

It showed up in the garden and I didn’t plant it. Haven’t been able to keep up with the weeding so it got to this point.

Well I’m off work tomorrow and I’ve got a small stock of newspaper. I’m gonna layer the newspaper around my established plants and get them nice and wet before covering with compost. Then the bed that has nothing in it will get a bunch of compost in preparation for my Brussel sprouts. Then...

It was a seven year mortgage through a private person rather than a bank. Sadly it won’t show on our credit score except saying we own our home once the title is filed. And we’re older than we look. I’m almost 30. But all the same thank you, it’s been a lot of hard work to keep up.

I live in town so a pig wouldn’t be an option. And we have I would guess 4 years total left here. Two to pay it off and another two to finish flipping it for a profit. So at some point I have to make the garden sorta pretty so that a potential buyer would see it as a good thing rather than a big...

I have chickens and the bedding in the coop is a combo of straw and pine chips

So I live not far from the Missouri River. There is a good chance that at one point my property was under the river, I have some pretty bad clay soil. When we get rain it pools on top and when the draught comes in has huge cracks that I usually have to fill with garden/potting soil from the...

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