Disclaimer; many of these times are estimated because I don't wear a watch and unless looking at a clock inside I never truly know what time it is, LOL!!!
This is yesterday's( 10-23-2010) "Day in our slow life"
5:30 am- Alarm goes off, playing an oldies song. This is the time the dogs get their morning affection and get to jump up into bed, what a treat! :o)
6am- Mike and I are up dressed and heading outside to feed the cows, a headlamp is needed as it is pitch dark still. Button and Hoss are glad to see us and Hoss even butts me for his hay
6:15am- Back inside, I get the coffee heated awhile Mike gets ready for work. Mike says he'll take his muffin with him, as the snack he ate last night before bed is sitting like a lump in his stomach.
6:30am- we sit down and enjoy our coffee and talk about the day ahead
7am- Mike leaves for work and I hear Cortney coming down the stairs.
Cortney prepares Hoss's bottle and heads out to the barn.
7:15- Cortney is doing her chicken and turkey chores and I'm washing up the morning dishes, cleaning off the counters, wiping off the wood stove top and getting the table in order and cleaned up a bit because we are expecting company today :o)
7:30am- I check email and visit a few blogs, posting on them as well as our own blog
8:15am- Cortney and I head outside to begin disconnecting the hoses and rolling up for winter storage.
9:30 am- I pulled up some sunflower stalks and piled them for Cortney to haul to the chickens and turkeys.
10am- Cleaned up and collected seed pods from the radishes, piling the greens into a pile to dry for burning later
10:45am- Cortney is now working on harvesting fennel seed heads, while I am cleaning up the dill and weeds in that area, shaking the dill seed for next seasons crop. What I pulled is piled and hauled to the burn pit.
11am- Inside for some H2O
11:15am- Back out to finish clean up of the dried dill and weeds
11:40am- Cortney and I decide we'd better clean up and change clothes before my Cousin Rachel and the girls arrive :o) I decided to eat a tuna sandwich, Cortney opted to wait until after our company leaves.
Around 12pm- Rachel and the girls pull into the driveway and Casino and Tuffy sound the alarm . The girls are excited to see Cortney. Cortney takes them to see our injured turkey and then down into the root cellar to pick the pumpkins. Each of the girls picked two ears of the colored corn as well. It was a hard choice for Rachel*wink*, the girls both picked their choices and all 6 ears were beautiful together. There visit was nice, but they had an appointment in a neighboring town to try their hand at pottery making.
1-ish pm-Rachel and the girls say good bye . I grab the scissors and head out to cut the millet and put into milk crates for storage in the cellar. I treated the chickens and turkeys to a few heads and the quickly gave it a, " Two Wings Up" vote, LOL!!!
2pm- Take a mini break, Mike calls to see how our day is progressing. He shares that he has been busy too
and he's working on his 13th tire repair, hauled feed and made some hydraulic hoses.
2:10pm- Cortney brings in the mail, I'm excited to see a flyer from a yarn shop and they are offering beginning knitting classes, YEAH!
2:30pm- Back out to the garden to dig up the millet grasses and pile for burning
3:40pm- My Mom stops in with a question and conversation on various topics ensues
4:30pm- Cortney checks email. I start the pump and begin filling the cows troughs, while waiting on the filling I re-bed the barn in prep for 5'ish feeding of Button and Hoss.
5:09- Cortney and I head out to get some hay down from the loft and then haul out a sliver for each and get Button and Hoss in their barn and corral. Upon returning to the house Cortney feeds the dogs and cat.
5:30 pm- Mike is home and helps us finish rolling up the hoses, now that the troughs are full
6pm- Inside to pull out the leftovers for supper. We have stew, sweet and sour chicken and fried rice to clean up. :o)
6:10pm- Reheat leftovers and it's pick what you want or dish yourself up supper*wink*
6:20pm- Eat our supper and visit about he days happenings.
7:15 pm- Work with Mike on some paperwork on his laptop
8: 30pm- Mike offers me a neck and back massage and of course I don't turn him down :o)
8:45pm- I return the favor and massage Mike's neck and shoulders
9:15 pm- We watch a bit of a program on PBS, but it was stupid so turned it off.
9:20 pm- Cortney says good night
9: 30pm- We let the dogs out for their nightly break
9:40pm- Lights out, dogs on their beds and soon we'll be there as well*wink*
10:12 pm- Post this on the blog so we can maybe sleep in a bit tomorrow
Good night everyone
Saturday, October 23, 2010
" A Day in the Slow Life"
Alla from Mountain Valley Farms invited us to participate in " A Day in the Slow Life" So today is the day we'll keep track of what's happening and will post it on Sunday. :o) Okay off to the "Slow Life" *wink*
Please feel free to participate yourself, I think it would be fun to see hour to hour what everyone does, just link to our post.
Please feel free to participate yourself, I think it would be fun to see hour to hour what everyone does, just link to our post.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tomatoes!
What a wonderful blessing that word is! :o)
After several years of struggling to get ripe tomatoes before a frost.... well this year with the hoop house we're not only enjoying ripe tomatoes well after several frosts, but the tomatoes are HUGE! The basket above is from just one days harvest. Now the only problem I have is jars, I'm running seriously low and really don't wish to buy new jars. So I put the word out and hope today that we'll find some. :o)
Seed collection for next year and our Anaheim chili peppers almost completely dry and ready to be ground.
Here are the bean pods Mike and Cortney collected( and the dried Painted Mountain corn), we'll worry about shelling them on a cold winters day or evening at the table, next to the warm and toasty wood cook stove :o) Thankfully there are projects such as these that can be postponed for a later time*wink*
We've had a tough year when it comes to animal, losses. Our cow, Addy, was down and couldn't get up in the pasture on Monday evening. She did stand on Tues. morning but it was obvious that she'd pulled out her hip. We're not entirely sure if this was an injury from a few days earlier( as we were treating her for what we felt was a pulled muscle or tendon), gone bad. Anyway we'd already decided months earlier she was going into the freezer as hamburger, we were just holding off because we didn't have the room( hindsight is 20/20 don't you know*sigh*). When we called the butcher( they'll come and custom butcher right on your farm), he said she had to be able to walk, which she could NOT, otherwise she's classified as a "downer cow" and they by law couldn't butcher her. With no place cool enough to hang her to age we were now are faced with the fact that we're loosing all the meat. :o( We went ahead and put her down( she was in pain) and a friend of ours brought over their loader( Mike was fit to be tied, he couldn't get our tractor with loader to start) and loaded her on our truck for us. She was to be hauled and buried in a pit they have for cows( in fact they had one that had been bitten by a rattlesnake that they had to put down the day before), then the state trapper showed up and asked about using the two cows as bait for coyotes. Since we know firsthand that a friend of ours has been struggling with her sheep being killed by coyotes all year we talked it over and decided that at least Addy's death was not going to be a total loss.
When you own animals things happen, we don't always understand, nor do we enjoy these things happening but you can either let it ruin your life or pick yourself back up and move forward. Loosing an animals is never easy, especially when you work closely with them and they become a friend. We're just so glad we opted to buy the bottle calf Cortney was raising for a friend, otherwise Button would be all alone and cows are, after all a herd animal.
Well, got to get moving we have laundry to finish today and tomatoes to run through the mill and cook down for sauce. :o) I loose my righthand woman at 12:30pm today too, she's helping with an after school program for children *wink*
Blessings for your day!
We've had a tough year when it comes to animal, losses. Our cow, Addy, was down and couldn't get up in the pasture on Monday evening. She did stand on Tues. morning but it was obvious that she'd pulled out her hip. We're not entirely sure if this was an injury from a few days earlier( as we were treating her for what we felt was a pulled muscle or tendon), gone bad. Anyway we'd already decided months earlier she was going into the freezer as hamburger, we were just holding off because we didn't have the room( hindsight is 20/20 don't you know*sigh*). When we called the butcher( they'll come and custom butcher right on your farm), he said she had to be able to walk, which she could NOT, otherwise she's classified as a "downer cow" and they by law couldn't butcher her. With no place cool enough to hang her to age we were now are faced with the fact that we're loosing all the meat. :o( We went ahead and put her down( she was in pain) and a friend of ours brought over their loader( Mike was fit to be tied, he couldn't get our tractor with loader to start
When you own animals things happen, we don't always understand, nor do we enjoy these things happening but you can either let it ruin your life or pick yourself back up and move forward. Loosing an animals is never easy, especially when you work closely with them and they become a friend. We're just so glad we opted to buy the bottle calf Cortney was raising for a friend, otherwise Button would be all alone and cows are, after all a herd animal.
Well, got to get moving we have laundry to finish today and tomatoes to run through the mill and cook down for sauce. :o) I loose my righthand woman at 12:30pm today too, she's helping with an after school program for children *wink*
Blessings for your day!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Our weekend
Not much to share, Mike and Cortney did clean up in the garden on Saturday, collecting more dried bean pods( a 5 gallon bucket full of one variety and a old milk crate with another), burned the dried bushes from the bush beans, pulled up the cabbage roots. While I worked indoors on cleaning and getting odds and ends chore caught up. In the late afternoon we did clean the stove pipe and stove in preparation for our burning.If your are interested in a tutorial look under woodstove care for pictures.
We did it the old fashioned way but removing a section of pipe and holding a bag over the end of the pipe to collect the soot, if you'll recall our disaster when experimenting on a new way( easier, so so we thought, LOL!) last year.LOL!!!!
I woke up Saturday with a scratchy throat, so immediately took 2000mg Vitamin C, began my day by drinking echinachea / elderberry tea with a liberal amount of raw honey and increased my Vitamin D3 from 3,000mg to 5,000mg. The scratchy throat went away by about midday but I felt it settling into my sinuses. By evening the nose was plugged tight, which I hate not being able to breath through my nose, so fought sleep off and on all night.
Sunday we'd scheduled to butcher turkeys, six total( 5 tom and a hen), would have been 6 toms but one was injured fighting and lost some weight while he was down. We had all but one turkey sold, or so we thought.*sigh* When I called people on Friday to let them know their birds would be ready for pick up early next week( this week) two people cancelled their orders, sighting $$$ problems and one lady I couldn't get a hold of, but am fairly sure she's just out of town. So this leaves us with two toms and a hen that were not claimed. Our freezer space is limited so we made the decision to butcher only what we actually had sold and one for us; in other words three toms.
Butchering turkeys seems easier to me than butchering chickens, we timed ourselves and it took 12-15 minutes per bird. All three toms( one was butchered when the buyer arrived, because she wanted to help and learn about butchering) dressed out at 20-25lbs and all were plenty fat *wink* We always pay special attention to the organs( heart, liver, lungs) and all three toms organs were very healthy.
Of course since our toms were bronze and they did have some pin feathers there is a little cleanup involved in getting the coloring scrapped from under the skin. Once they'd been thoroughly washed and the final inspection for pin feathers complete, they were bagged( well, the one buyer took her tom home for final cleanup) and are chilling in the refrigerator downstairs.
Today I'm putting together an ad for a local paper and will advertise the remaining two toms and pray that the other woman who wanted the hen contacts us soon, otherwise we'll butcher the hen for our freezer :o)
I still am congested but feel fine. I was able to clear on side of my nose to breath through last night and after taking hot tea and elderberry tincture before bed, I slept like a log*wink*
Today's "plan"( as Cortney refers to it) is to harvest ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse,wash, cut and add them to the ones already inside waiting to be milled. Cortney most likely will mill them while I'm getting supper started, stew, in the dutch oven. We also have laundry to start, typically it takes us two days due to clothes line constraints, especially now that our day time temperatures are cooler and the clothes take longer to dry.
What a blessing!, all the shelves are FULL :o)
Herbs collected, dried and now in their storage containers
We'll need to clean up the dunk pan( used for butchering) and the cooling tank buy dumping them out and washing them down to dry in the sunshine. If we have time after this we have two large heads of cabbage still waiting to be shredded and packed into the crock for kraut. The plan is to do a video of the shredding with a slaw cutter, and the steps in packing it into the crocks, then do follow up videos as if ferments. To bad we can't share the smell*wink* For something that smells so bad, when it is finished it sure tastes good, Ummmm. Ummmm. :o)
We did it the old fashioned way but removing a section of pipe and holding a bag over the end of the pipe to collect the soot, if you'll recall our disaster when experimenting on a new way( easier, so so we thought, LOL!) last year.LOL!!!!
I woke up Saturday with a scratchy throat, so immediately took 2000mg Vitamin C, began my day by drinking echinachea / elderberry tea with a liberal amount of raw honey and increased my Vitamin D3 from 3,000mg to 5,000mg. The scratchy throat went away by about midday but I felt it settling into my sinuses. By evening the nose was plugged tight, which I hate not being able to breath through my nose, so fought sleep off and on all night.
Sunday we'd scheduled to butcher turkeys, six total( 5 tom and a hen), would have been 6 toms but one was injured fighting and lost some weight while he was down. We had all but one turkey sold, or so we thought.*sigh* When I called people on Friday to let them know their birds would be ready for pick up early next week( this week) two people cancelled their orders, sighting $$$ problems and one lady I couldn't get a hold of, but am fairly sure she's just out of town. So this leaves us with two toms and a hen that were not claimed. Our freezer space is limited so we made the decision to butcher only what we actually had sold and one for us; in other words three toms.
Butchering turkeys seems easier to me than butchering chickens, we timed ourselves and it took 12-15 minutes per bird. All three toms( one was butchered when the buyer arrived, because she wanted to help and learn about butchering) dressed out at 20-25lbs and all were plenty fat *wink* We always pay special attention to the organs( heart, liver, lungs) and all three toms organs were very healthy.
Of course since our toms were bronze and they did have some pin feathers there is a little cleanup involved in getting the coloring scrapped from under the skin. Once they'd been thoroughly washed and the final inspection for pin feathers complete, they were bagged( well, the one buyer took her tom home for final cleanup) and are chilling in the refrigerator downstairs.
Today I'm putting together an ad for a local paper and will advertise the remaining two toms and pray that the other woman who wanted the hen contacts us soon, otherwise we'll butcher the hen for our freezer :o)
I still am congested but feel fine. I was able to clear on side of my nose to breath through last night and after taking hot tea and elderberry tincture before bed, I slept like a log*wink*
Today's "plan"( as Cortney refers to it) is to harvest ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse,wash, cut and add them to the ones already inside waiting to be milled. Cortney most likely will mill them while I'm getting supper started, stew, in the dutch oven. We also have laundry to start, typically it takes us two days due to clothes line constraints, especially now that our day time temperatures are cooler and the clothes take longer to dry.
We'll need to clean up the dunk pan( used for butchering) and the cooling tank buy dumping them out and washing them down to dry in the sunshine. If we have time after this we have two large heads of cabbage still waiting to be shredded and packed into the crock for kraut. The plan is to do a video of the shredding with a slaw cutter, and the steps in packing it into the crocks, then do follow up videos as if ferments. To bad we can't share the smell*wink* For something that smells so bad, when it is finished it sure tastes good, Ummmm. Ummmm. :o)
Friday, October 15, 2010
Lookee, Lookee, more revealed in Obamacare....
http://www.humanevents.com/article.p...t=yes&id=39412
Human Events
Obamacare Sticker Shock: Taxing Over 15,000 Medicine
10/14/2010
Nancy Pelosi warned us we'd have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it.
Higher insurance premiums are hitting families hard. Medicare Advantage has
been decimated. Millions will be forced into government-run Medicaid where
long lines and rationing await.
If we like our insurance -- too bad.
Beginning January 1, 2011, more than 15,000 over-the-counter (OTC) health
care items will require a prescription (and that means a doctor's visit) for
tax-free reimbursement.
Under Obamacare, OTC drugs cannot be reimbursed tax-free from Health Savings
Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) without a government
bureaucrat-required permission slip.
In response to new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance (the IRS is the
Obamacare enforcement agency), the Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards
(SIGIS) http://www.sig-is.org/en/documents/2...essRelease.pdf
released a new list of OTC medications that will require a prescription for
a tax-free withdrawal from an HSA or an FSA under Obamacare.
SIGIS is an industry group for health care debit card transactions and merchants.
According to SIGIS, 15,000 OTC health care items are barred from purchase by
these accounts without prescription.
Below is a partial list of the OTC item categories:
Acid Controllers
Allergy and Sinus medicine
Antibiotics
Anti-Diarrheals
Anti-Gas Products
Anti-Itch and Insect Bite
Anti-Parasitic Treatments
Baby Rash Ointments/Creams
Cold Sore Remedies
MUCH MORE AT LINK
Human Events
Obamacare Sticker Shock: Taxing Over 15,000 Medicine
10/14/2010
Nancy Pelosi warned us we'd have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it.
Higher insurance premiums are hitting families hard. Medicare Advantage has
been decimated. Millions will be forced into government-run Medicaid where
long lines and rationing await.
If we like our insurance -- too bad.
Beginning January 1, 2011, more than 15,000 over-the-counter (OTC) health
care items will require a prescription (and that means a doctor's visit) for
tax-free reimbursement.
Under Obamacare, OTC drugs cannot be reimbursed tax-free from Health Savings
Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) without a government
bureaucrat-required permission slip.
In response to new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance (the IRS is the
Obamacare enforcement agency), the Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards
(SIGIS) http://www.sig-is.org/en/documents/2...essRelease.pdf
released a new list of OTC medications that will require a prescription for
a tax-free withdrawal from an HSA or an FSA under Obamacare.
SIGIS is an industry group for health care debit card transactions and merchants.
According to SIGIS, 15,000 OTC health care items are barred from purchase by
these accounts without prescription.
Below is a partial list of the OTC item categories:
Acid Controllers
Allergy and Sinus medicine
Antibiotics
Anti-Diarrheals
Anti-Gas Products
Anti-Itch and Insect Bite
Anti-Parasitic Treatments
Baby Rash Ointments/Creams
Cold Sore Remedies
MUCH MORE AT LINK
A rap song I can say I honestly like......
I'm no rap fan, but.... this gives a good message and pray it will educate some of our younger generations to the dangers in the foods the consume. Of course there are young and old that need to be educated to the danger of GMO and maybe this song will make them begin asking questions and researching GMO's for themselves. Natural News puts out a wonderful newsletter, please visit their site( addy at the end of the video) and sign up for their news letter.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
What a beautiful way to start any morning
Cortney capured these photos, yesterday morning(10-11-10)
Ever feel like you are being chased and you're loosing ground? Well that is what it feels like here lately trying to take full advantage of harvesting, canning and everyday life moments. Last night we had a really hard frost, we're just praying it didn't harm any of the herbs we've not gotten to yet. I don't worry about the root crops, which are still in he ground and the tomatoes, peppers and newly planted salad greens are in the greenhouse and faired well. Thus far we've has a blessed Autumn, with unseasonably warm days, cool night and the last couple of days we've even had a good amount of moisture, almost an inch in two days.
Now it's drawing close to the time we need to step up getting winter preps crossed off. First thing this weekend we're cleaning the chimney and stove, then butchering turkeys, fryers and some older hens for soup. Then we have pumps that need to be winterized as well as lawn mowers( a rider and a push) and eventually the tiller, once we get the garden turned under for winter and a good dressing of composted manure spread over the top :o) Next we have some windows in the two chicken coops to replace and also we need to deep down clean them both and get a good thick litter on the floor of the main coop, to help keep the chickens busy all winter as well as generate heat, as it composts. I'm sure there are additional things that will be added to the list, now you understand the feeling of loosing ground in the foot race with our MT weather :o)
Blessing and productivity to all who are in the same foot race,
Kelle
Saturday, October 9, 2010
A Walton's Reunion to air on........
Oct 18th! We don't have paid TV , so we'll have to see if someone will tape this for us, hint, hint*wink*
Here's the information from Earl Hamner Jr.'s blog;
Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Mary McDonough, Judy Norton, Eric Scott, Jon Walmsley, David Harper, Kami Cotler, and series creator Earl Hamner will appear on the special, which airs October 18th at 7:00pm EST on INSP - The Inspiration Network.
Indian Land, SC - America's favorite family "The Waltons" will return to television on Monday, October 18th at 7:00pm EST for an exclusive reunion special, "A Waltons Family Reunion," on INSP - The Inspiration Network. The surviving cast members of the American television classic will journey back to "Walton's Mountain" almost 30 years after the series ended its iconic run.
Hosted by Mary McDonough (Erin Walton), the reunion special will feature Richard Thomas (John Boy), Ralph Waite (John Walton), Michael Learned (Olivia Walton), Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton), Eric Scott (Ben Walton), Jon Walmsley (Jason Walton), David Harper (Jim-Bob Walton), Kami Cotler (Elizabeth Walton), and series creator Earl Hamner. The veteran cast will reminisce about the series, its impact on American culture and family life, and what they've been up to since the series ended its original run in 1981.
"We're excited to assemble the cast of 'The Waltons' for a reunion special on INSP," said Doug Butts, Programming SVP for INSP. "Having all of the surviving cast members together on television is a real treat. 'The Waltons' transcended television and spoke to an ideal of family unity and surviving difficult times that many Americans still strive for today. We're excited that people will have another chance to see and hear from this cast."
"The Waltons" follows one family's life as they run a lumber mill during the Great Depression in rural Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Created and narrated by author Earl Hamner, Jr., the program is a reflection of Hamner's own upbringing during the same era, with his experiences re-told to the viewer through the eyes of aspiring writer John Boy Walton (portrayed by Richard Thomas). The close-knit family includes father John Walton (Ralph Waite) and his wife Olivia (Michael Learned), and their children John Boy, Mary Ellen, Jim-Bob, Elizabeth, Jason, Erin, and Ben. Grandparents Zeb (Will Geer) and Esther (Ellen Corby) serve as the elders of this large and loving family, who together face the challenges of 1930s United States while living on "Walton's Mountain." The series ran from September 1972-August 1981 and earned a total of 13 Emmy® Awards during its original run.
INSP is available in more than 60 million homes across the US on more than 2,800 cable systems and on DIRECTV channel 364 and DISH Network channel 259. Viewers can check their local program guides for channel line-up information or visit /the-waltons.
Here's the information from Earl Hamner Jr.'s blog;
Saturday, October 9, 2010
The Waltons Reunion Special to Air October 18th on INSP
Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Mary McDonough, Judy Norton, Eric Scott, Jon Walmsley, David Harper, Kami Cotler, and series creator Earl Hamner will appear on the special, which airs October 18th at 7:00pm EST on INSP - The Inspiration Network.
Indian Land, SC - America's favorite family "The Waltons" will return to television on Monday, October 18th at 7:00pm EST for an exclusive reunion special, "A Waltons Family Reunion," on INSP - The Inspiration Network. The surviving cast members of the American television classic will journey back to "Walton's Mountain" almost 30 years after the series ended its iconic run.
Hosted by Mary McDonough (Erin Walton), the reunion special will feature Richard Thomas (John Boy), Ralph Waite (John Walton), Michael Learned (Olivia Walton), Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton), Eric Scott (Ben Walton), Jon Walmsley (Jason Walton), David Harper (Jim-Bob Walton), Kami Cotler (Elizabeth Walton), and series creator Earl Hamner. The veteran cast will reminisce about the series, its impact on American culture and family life, and what they've been up to since the series ended its original run in 1981.
"We're excited to assemble the cast of 'The Waltons' for a reunion special on INSP," said Doug Butts, Programming SVP for INSP. "Having all of the surviving cast members together on television is a real treat. 'The Waltons' transcended television and spoke to an ideal of family unity and surviving difficult times that many Americans still strive for today. We're excited that people will have another chance to see and hear from this cast."
"The Waltons" follows one family's life as they run a lumber mill during the Great Depression in rural Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Created and narrated by author Earl Hamner, Jr., the program is a reflection of Hamner's own upbringing during the same era, with his experiences re-told to the viewer through the eyes of aspiring writer John Boy Walton (portrayed by Richard Thomas). The close-knit family includes father John Walton (Ralph Waite) and his wife Olivia (Michael Learned), and their children John Boy, Mary Ellen, Jim-Bob, Elizabeth, Jason, Erin, and Ben. Grandparents Zeb (Will Geer) and Esther (Ellen Corby) serve as the elders of this large and loving family, who together face the challenges of 1930s United States while living on "Walton's Mountain." The series ran from September 1972-August 1981 and earned a total of 13 Emmy® Awards during its original run.
Beginning Monday, October 18th on INSP, viewers also can journey back with "The Waltons" at 1pm EST and 8pm EST when the series begins its exclusive Monday-Friday run on the network.
INSP is available in more than 60 million homes across the US on more than 2,800 cable systems and on DIRECTV channel 364 and DISH Network channel 259. Viewers can check their local program guides for channel line-up information or visit /the-waltons.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Real life moments,our dirty little secrets...
Yes, in REAL life the house gets left behind when we're busy harvesting, preserving and clean up the garden.
Okay in our defense,this is just after a week of no dusting( which BTW I hate doing) One of the downsides of country living, opening windows, having indoor pets, a wood stove and well... a 100yr old house*sigh*
Below are pictures from in and around our place this morning. Yesterday we collected our Kentucky Wonder bean pods that were well on their way to being dry. There are still far more on the vines still drying. We collect these for seed as well as......
Okay now you know our dirty secrets, how about yours? *wink*
Blessings for your day :o)
Monday, October 4, 2010
Monday's meandering thoughts and photos
We're still busy collecting our harvest, dehydrating, canning , lacto fermenting, pickling,jelly and jam making, etc.... Autumn is moving along quickly and we've had warmer temps in our Autumn then we had all Summer. We're still collecting herbs for drying( sage, parcel, anise hyssop, lemon basil, lemon balm, bee balm, spicy globe basil, comfrey, greek oregano, spearmint, peppermint, etc....
Blessings for your new week, may it be filled with productivity, that certainly is our prayer.
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