Howdy Y'all!!
  This has been the fastest summer! We've had time flying right by us, and I'm sure you all have too! Our summer has been full- a trip out to Texas, a visit to Alabama and a mountaineer festival in east Tennessee, growing, plowing, harvesting, canning, sowing and sewing, building gates, fixing fences and fixing great southern meals on our outside wood cookstove. All that fencing and gate building was to get ready for the newest member of the homestead... a 6 month old Dexter/Jersey heifer, Maybelline, our future milk cow!! So far she's working out great and seems to be getting used to us. We are so grateful for her! We harvested our field corn we grew from 4 generation heirloom seed. It makes the very best cornbread ever had! We grind it in our beautiful new Grain Maker grain mill, {what a wonderful gift we were blessed with} and it makes the best cornbread you've ever had! This week we'll be making hay, building a few more gates, fixing fences, planting cover crops, canning applesauce, getting the horses shod and many other homestead blessings!
  It was so wonderful to meet all the sweet families in Texas and east Tennessee, we are thankful for all our new friends we've made.
                                                    Blessings to you all!
                                                         Vicki at Homestead Blessings