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WTF People

This is probably not going to be a popular post, but here goes. You have probably heard about Hurricane Harvey and how it is devastating Houston. People are tra...

My Week So Far

Saturday - up 3 hours early, morning chores done, horse trailer hitched and on the road. Going to pick up our first-ever owned horse. My granddaughter rides but...

OOPS

I left my little island on Saturday, was gone for about 8 hours. Came home to find a hose on the pond pump had pulled lose and water was pumping not into the fi...

Looking Back

Another retrospective post, this one from 3/11/2013 And I am exhausted. Thursday Al and I took the truck off island to the Dodge dealer. After having the shocks...

High Anxiety to Silver Linings

My anxiety level has been really high this week. If ignored it usually leads to a deep depression, so I have spent a couple of days looking for the good in ever...

Water, water. An update

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am installing a pond to help redirect the rainwater that floods about 1/3 of my land into one location and then out to the...

Chicken coops, then vs now

Another post from way back when. We had lost our home when the landlord was foreclosed on, she had collected rent from us each month but didn't pay the mortgage...

Water, Water, Everywhere

Imagine trying to pasture animals on land that is underwater much of the year. We bought our little one-acre plot of land intending to homestead, to become self...

🐟🐠 Free Steem Dollars + Followers Minnows Faucet Community Project ( August 8 )

The minnowsfaucet Community Grow Project repeat the minimum actions to get rewarded : 1 follow my followers @nicnicy + leave a comment you followed all 2 upvote...

Beach Journey

Yesterday we went exploring our new home on this small island, following the roads at random. We saw private homes with private beaches and their own private do...

Color challenge Red

We used to have a lot of dahlias, but this year the red is the first to bloom. /20170731094004.jpg)...

Poop, Coops and More

This post is a journal entry from five years ago when I bought my first house. I was so in love with the romantic notion of dropping a few coops and seeds in th...

Dithering and a Decision

It's been several days since I started writing this blog and I still haven't posted the first entry. I have been going around and around trying to decide what t...

Blue, my island home

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Yellow

The sun hidden behind the clouds shows its face only in the reflection on the water....

Zion ~ Mount Kinesava and the Altar of Sacrifice

This is a most remarkable, iconic location that is utterly wondrous to behold, and even more so from this lofty view as seen from Where Eagles Fly… Zion Nationa...

Is this me?

I was told I should include a picture of myself in my introduction. This is my answer to that...

Jill of all trades, Mistress of None, Ever the Student

Mother, grandmother, homesteader, wannabe hermit, painter, author, crafter, mechanic, crazy chicken lady, dog lover, cat fancier, hobby prepper and survivor. Ra...