homestead
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Preservation
This is the first year I’ve really set out to preserve our harvest. I’m not sure if it’s the talk of looming food shortages or if it’s because I’ve finally watched enough YouTube videos on canning, but I finally feel like this is the time to really learn how to can. I’ve canned here and there before, a little jam one year and a few pints of tomatoes another, but nothing significant until this summer. I’ve known for a long time that canning, especially pressure canning, would be a helpful and important skill to learn, but in the past I’ve had so much fear of killing us all with botched…
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The Goodness
It’s so much easier to taste and see that the Lord is good in summer. The daisies are blooming alongside the road, and soon it will be the ditch lilies followed by the goldenrod and asters of late summer. Though there’s not much yet I can go out to the garden and literally eat things that grew from tiny seeds. What a miracle that alone is!
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Time for the new.
I’m sorting through every single thing in our kitchen today. We are preparing to fully gut it tomorrow, a project that is happening about 5 years later than we thought it would. Life has been a little rocky lately. We’ve had some strange medical issues, along with some normal but annoying sicknesses. It feels as though we’ve had every common ailment over the past few weeks, and at times like it may never end. We are embarking on a new thing, the School of Kingdom Writers is just a few weeks from launching its first full time classes. Students are actually moving from all over the country to little Zanesville,…
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Fall leaves
When we moved here my heart filled with gratitude knowing that we had a beautiful sugar maple right outside our dining room window. It was a deep desire of my heart to have beautiful fall leaves in our yard, and God fulfilled that unspoken dream. I watched the leaves begin to yellow, turn to light orange and then to a robust rust before letting go and burying our yard in 3 inches of mulch. Last year, instead of their beautiful show, the leaves simply dried up and fell off. No colors, no excitement, just bare. We guessed it was due to all of the construction and digging that happened around…
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November
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Construction Scenes pt. III
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Just another day
Some days you hire a slinger truck to slide in the window hole and dump tons of gravel into an open hole in the floor. Those are interesting days.
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Construction Scenes pt. II
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A few days in photos
It summer, and it’s turned into a very full summer very quickly.
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Construction scenes.
