♫ Here’s a story, of a family fencing project, with four people and a bunch of goats.♫ Michael has a dry erase board on which he writes his “to do” list. It is a very long list. Some are larger projects that we need to save money to complete, but they are there, on the […]
Kitchen Improvement Part Two
When we bought this farm we loved the kitchen. So much more cabinet and drawer space. Double ovens and decent counter space. We knew that over time we wanted to update the appliances. The sink was an easy place to start. Michael installed this one in July of 2014. Then for my birthday that September, […]
Time Lapse of the Shop Build
Time has certainly flown by this last year in Amity. And, almost exactly one year after I built my shop, I am finally getting electricity brought to it and will have lights and outlets. Here is a photo gallery of our largest DIY project to-date, The Shop Build. From the first day of digging post holes, to the […]
Honda TL125 restore update
So, its been a few months since the boys and I brought home the “Dirt Bike Project”, you can read about that story by clicking here, and we finally have it up and running! Cheers and Shouts. Here is what it looked like when we brought it home, pretty sad and worn out huh? When we […]
We’ve Made it a Year
Today is our one year anniversary of moving from here to here. I thought it would be nice to look back at how things have changed. I’ll zip through the changes we’ve made to the place. We’ve added some toys…..oh yeah, I’m supposed to call them tools. We cleaned a really dirty barn. We added […]
Honda TL125 Refresh (aka dirt bike proje...
The boys and I have started a new project, refreshing this 1973 Honda TL125 motorcycle. The boys had some money saved up and we were looking at adding another Baja Doodlebug to the stable. You can see their existing one in use here from a previous post: The Boys Doodlebug. As we were searching Craigslist, we […]
Homemade Soap Making Day with Nancy
Last Monday began our spring break. Michael and the boys left for the week to go camping and I had a long list of things I wanted to get done. The first of which was making homemade soap with my dear friend Nancy. In the past we have always made soap at Nancy’s house. I […]
DIY Bookshelves
Well, another of our big projects checked off the to-do list, yeah! We have lots of books; lots and lots of books. In our last home we had some bookcases built for us to store our books, so I promised Karen before winter was over I would build her a set of wall-to-wall bookshelves in […]
What’s Happening on the Farm
The weather being so nice has allowed us to do more outdoor things. We have been putting half the chickens in the garden every day. A friend gave us this chicken tractor and it is wonderful. Michael will make another at some point. The chickens have been laying a lot of eggs. 132 eggs […]
New Roof for the Chickens
Michael’s big weekend project was to add some metal roofing over the outdoor pen for the chickens. He expected to quickly get the project done on Friday after picking up the roofing. Projects rarely go quickly. The little bit of time he set aside on Friday was taken up with removing rotten posts. Here is […]
Field Fencing
After papa goose disappeared Michael thought it was best to replace the field fencing that was around the pond. It was old and had places that the geese were able to get through. The Saturday after Christmas Michael and the boys took down the old fence and some of the useless posts. They bought new […]
Doelings or Leprechauns?
On Saturday a new and already beloved friend named Raspberry came over to teach us to 1) give our goats vaccinations and 2) tattoo our new doelings. Raspberry is a long time goat owner. He started in his youth with 4-H. He is a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. For 20+ years he was a […]