Category: Homesteading

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Day 41: Facing The Brave New World (Happy Arbor Day)

First off, the moon is absolutely gorgeous. A thin crescent underneath of Venus following the setting Sun. A beautiful sunset to watch! As for this New World thing, this was

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Day 38: Live From The Porch… Sort Of.

First off, I did my bike today! It’s my best ride yet. I’m getting more cardio minutes each time I do this. For today’s Earth Week project, we installed the

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Day 37: Workout, Birds, and Bacon

My bike ride this morning was accompanied by the dogs. As you can see, they were super excited to be a part of my morning exercise. I started a burn

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Day 36: Celebrating Earth Week

This week hosts not only Earth Day, but Ohio’s Arbor Day. That’s a whole lot of love to the outdoors. Unfortunately, it’s supposed to rain much of the week. The

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Day 35: Weekend Warrior Project – Fence

First off, I skipped the bike this morning, and went for my next 5k run. I knew I’d be a lot more active today, and I didn’t want to fall

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Day 31: First Blood

Ok, so not really that dramatic, although if I keep this bike exercise up, I’ll be just as fit as Rambo! The chickens are being chickens. No roosters were harmed

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Day 29: Happy Easter!

We did a little house cleaning/reorganizing today, including putting up another drying rack for flowers and herbs. Our “Easter baskets” consisted of candy, squid kites, bird houses, wind chimes, oil

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Day 28: Getting Back to “Normal”

My shoulder pain is finally starting to subside, so even though it was a little chilly and windy today, Luke and I did a short outdoor walk. We cleaned in

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Day 27: Snow & Science

This week has been a whirlwind for Ohio. We went from 70’s and sunny to tornadoes and hail to snow! That’s right, we woke up to a dusting of snow

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Day 23: Eggs and Ouchies

I realized today that a bird tried to build a nest on my front porch wreath. I’m not sure it was the best idea, especially with the traffic the porch

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