Do I Quit or Simplify Drastically?

I have two choices, quit blogging or simplify dramatically. I'm not just talking about my house and livestock but my blog if I am to continue. It has become imperative that one of our granddaughters school from home. Her mother is unable to do so and so our oldest daughter is doing the technology class …

Breeding Goats

My last to breed was Cheyenne. Was she too young to breed at 7 months? What do you think? I asked a gentleman, who did linear appraisals for the A.D.G.A. all over the country for over twenty years when I met him. It was to settle a difference of opinion between myself and my two …

What Organization Style Are You?

It's January, time to set goals and organize ourselves. Admit it, after the business and clutter of the holidays, you are looking to simplify life. How's it going? I know it's only the beginning of January but I've been at this for years in our new location. In fact, seven years down the road and …

Autism Limitations

"Don't let what you can not do interfere with what you can do."-John Wooden I see my husband hovering in fear as my heart refuses to beat a steady rhythm, racing so fast you can barely discern one beat from another or so irregular with races and stops that my legs barely dragging me across …

Home-made Fire Starters

Fire starters, there is lots to be said on the internet for good reason. Starting a fire in a cold stove, on a frigid day, in a chilly house is not easy, especially one of poor design. I've found some tricks and yes, that is plural. The theme for this year’s discoveries is 'Don't put …

Lessons From the Past

My grandparents have been on my mind a great deal lately as I see ourselves heading deeper into a turbulent time period. They were born in the early 1900's. They grew up on horseback, later traveled in airplanes, and saw man land on the moon. They survived WWI, The Spanish Flu, The Great Depression, WWII, …

Drought Brings Predators

Ever been on a coon hunt? Flashlight in hand, stumbling rapidly through the dark trying to figure out which way the baying sound of the dogs is coming from. Naw, this wasn't like that. Nor, waking up in your sleeping bag to the clanging noise of a BIG boar coon taking off with your backpack …

Hardiness Zones (diddly squat)

Hardiness Zones tell you ‘diddly squat’ if you live where I live. Hardiness zones - tell the annual extreme minimum temperature. That’s it! It misses the fact that Hazelnut trees (zone 4) will grow here but not produce fruit. It isn’t the cold but the too short a growing season that prevents it. The Wyoming …

Rabbits Fed Like Livestock

On occasion, I get kick back on the way I feed my rabbits. I respect the choices of those who disagree with me. They are doing what works well for them but what most people don't realize is we don't live where they live, we don't have the same rabbits they do, nor do we …

Severe Drought and Lack of Well Water

When he was forming the United Nations, Winston Churchill said, " Never let a good crisis go to waste." Most often this philosophy is used to exact political change that in any other circumstance, for the time period, would not be tolerated. This isn't a political blog so let's take this saying out of that …