Tag: homesteading

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Day 62: Odds and Ends

It was warm, breezy, and rainy today, which means we went from freeze warnings to holy humidity basically overnight. Talk about arthritis flares! We have hens going broody, the Dove

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Day 60: Homestead Cleanup

Today we had a friend come over to breakdown our beehives. They died over the winter, and we hadn’t cracked them open yet to see what was going on. Each

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Day 45: Workout at Work

I put in 5 hours at the hardware store today putting away truck. It gave me a great opportunity to start learning the products and the store layout. Amazingly, my

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Day 42: Saturday Stuff

So, I kicked butt on workouts today. I did my bike, and a 5k run! Today officially started Luke’s vacation, so he played in the shop most of the day.

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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 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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Day 11: A Little Dirt Never Hurt

Today was a gorgeous day outside. Mid 60’s, sunshine, warm! Avery and I decided to plant a few seeds inside. With the pandemic, greenhouses and online seed companies are selling

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Day 10: I Broke Quarantine…

First off… it was for a great cause! I dropped off 160 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to our local St. Vincent de Paul Society’s food pantry! Our selling season

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