Garden Blessings

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

Last Days of Summer

We had the great opportunity to have some friends over for a day at the river this past weekend. What a fun time we had swimming, jumping, diving, floating, kayaking...

                                                      The Three Littles ready for adventure!

                                        Surveying the situation, getting ready to "cross over Jordan"

                                                      Our blond haired, southern surfer boy

                                                                     Here we go!

                                                          The Captain and his cabin boy

Sitting on "the rock"

Country girls keeping cool

Kayak lessons

Nothing to it,

that's how country girls roll!

Splashing

All the delicious food...

And plenty of fellowship!

Make sure y'all remember to check out our END OF SUMMER SALE on our website www.homestead-blessings.com

 

 

 

  Happy Independence Day, Ya'll!!!

                                                                    The Cabbage Patch

                                                                 The Broccoli Patch

                         Mom and Mrs. Stowe working on the cookbook, it will be out soon Lord willing!

                                               Chore list on the chalk board earlier this spring

                                       Clean laundry on the line is always such a lovely thing to see

                                 Little Rhode Island Red hens growing big in their chicken tractor

                        Blueberries soon to be harvested from the patch on the hill behind the house

                             The apples are looking beautiful too. Can't wait till apple harvest this fall!

 

               Tonto, the lone ranger in the horse pasture now. Maybe we'll have a sidekick for him soon. :)

                                              Meadow wildflowers growing in the top pasture.

 Country roads taking us home.