New To Farm Life

A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Good News, Bad News

I'm sad, because my pastor is moving across the country to be some other church's pastor. Pastor L. and her husband J. are friends ...

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Winter Stores (A Thought Exercise)

Like many other girls, some of the first books I read entirely on my own were the Little House books. My favorite was the first one, Little ...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Settling into September (Goatherding and Profanity)

The weather changed last week. Just a half-moon ago, there was an article in the Seattle Times saying we had broken the record for consecuti...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Second Annual September Swap Meet and Cider Press

Last year's September Swap Meet was a flop - but partly that was because I broke three vertebrae three days before the event and couldn...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Double Piglet!

We acquired two new piglets yesterday. Here they are: two handsome girls, a cross between a Large Black Hog boar and a Tamworth Sow. These g...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Beautiful New Goat (It's a Small Caprine World)

I went and did it again - yes, I bought a goat. A new doe. And not just any doe - a gorgeous tri-color spotty doeling. She looks just like t...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Fermentation Files (Daikon Kim chee and Grape Leaves)

There is a reason I haven't been posting much lately, but I don't care to go into it. Suffice it to say that I have a frustrating, t...

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Hopesicle Life, Part Three

Hello all - since I can't think of a darn thing to write about (the garden... the goats.... the weather... rinse, lather, repeat....) Ho...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Summer in September (Garden Wrap Up)

Well, since winter lasted through the end of March, and the cool wet spring lasted through the end of July, I guess it's only fair that ...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Mother of All Trades (?) and Trade Network Update

I'm not sure yet whether or not this is going to work out exactly the way we think it is, but there's a possibility of the trade net...

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Fair Photos (Northwest Washington Fair 2011)

I love fairs. Everybody loves fairs, don't they? I mean, who wouldn't - it's high summer, hotter than a longshoreman's arm...

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

A Couple of Success Stories

Kosher dill (US) A "kosher" dill pickle is not necessarily kosher in the sense that it has been prepared under rabbinical super...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Canning Tomatoes (Staple Supply)

My tomatoes didn't do so well this year - a combination of early blight and some more recent malady that causes the vines to wither ...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Pajaretas (Goat Milk Cocktail)

Yesterday's goat slaughtering turned into quite a party. It was a gorgeous day but hot, and the men doing the butchering worked up a thi...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Redneck Shopping List

This is how much of a redneck I've become: my shopping list for today? A case of beer, propane, and bullets. It's goat slaughterin...

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