Back Again!

If you have been wondering where I have been these past few days that I haven't been posting it's because I am insanely busy!  With spring finally here and summer well on it's way the homestead is becoming very busy and the chore list keeps getting longer.

Not only are we renovating the living room, we are also renovating the outside of our house by building (from scratch) a covered porch screened in with a new door and window installed on the house.  We are tile draining a field this year as well, luckily we are not doing that job but hiring out however this still means that we have to schedule the farm work around that field.  This year we are buying laying hens as well as meat hens, which means renovating the chicken coop and building a new yard for them.  They come in 3 weeks!

My garden is also keeping me busy.  I have almost everything planted now.  I still need to plant some potatoes, sunflowers, and numerous gourds.


My partner and wee ones decided to help out by planting the pumpkins and gourds from seeds saved last year.  I find saved seeds are hit or miss, some take and some don't.  We plant our pumpkins and gourds in the manure pile in the barnyard, that way we don't have to look after them very much and they can 'run' wherever they want too. 

We roughly mark out where they are.

Seth got a cool little ax out of the deal.  It just happen to cut like that - totally by accident but he was thrilled!

I'm not sure how often I will be able to blog right now.  I really want to try and do it more often but honestly I am SO tired and wore out by the end of the day, which I am sure most of you can relate too.  So if anyone is actually following this blog or just checks in every now and then please be patient with me.  I will try and keep you updated as much as possible.