I know, I am embarrassingly behind on the A to Z challenge.  It all began to go south at U.  But I have a good excuse, really.  Things at the farm have been very, very exciting.  And this excitement has eaten up a lot of my time. On Monday (U day) we had our first […]

I’ve had turkeys on my mind a lot lately.  About a week ago, I picked up our turkey poults from the post office.  After the success of last year, we decided to increase the number of turkeys we raise and got 15. Domestic turkeys We bought 10 bronze breasted bronze turkeys, which are the same […]

Just over a year ago we went solar.  SolarCity came and installed our system for free. Now that we have had panels for a year, I think it’s time for an update.  I compared our electric costs for the past two years (one year without solar, one year with), and amazingly, we have already saved […]

I’m back, Rebecca’s friend Marianne! Perhaps you saw the blog Rebecca so graciously posted on Q – Quilts of Valor. Well somehow I tricked her (can you imagine) into allowing me to blog again! There’s a theme with me and it centers around – wait for it – SEWING! This time I’d like to tell […]

When Rebecca, one of my best friends, confidant and mother to our God Daughter, mentioned she was going through the alphabet in her blog once again, I thought this would be a great time to give an update about Quilts of Valor! She was thrilled with the idea, so here I am two years later […]