Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? The iris are blooming, seeds are coming up in the garden & I didn't get any asparagus this week. We worked on the camper, Kevin did the work & I helped hold things. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll show you around the gardens & tell you how the enclosed trailer camper transformation is going, then were heading out to the Goat Farm Sale this weekend.

The kitten's eyes are open. Meet
Poppy & Bristol. 

Kevin has already been having to water the garden. There's not much in yet, just a few cold weather things. The onions look a lot better after being watered. The strawberries are doing good. We're getting 9 to 11 eggs a day, so all the hens are laying.  An extra rooster along with 2 of the hens are going to the farm sale. The iris & azaleas are beautiful in bloom. The snowball bush don't seem to have any snowballs this year.  

Lettuce

    

Radishes

Nest box in the chicken house.

41 eggs in the incubator. It holds
42 but the turner motor won't turn
the trays with one of these large
size eggs in the space in front of it.

The iris are scattered around, I 

This dark pink one is up
at the chicken house.

enjoy walking around looking at all of them.

This one I call the old fashion 
kind is beside the house.

Iris the cat, Moma to
the kittens.

   

This different white one is over
in the rock gardens.

This dark purple one is
down by the creek.

We are ready for camping. We got the wiring, lights, ceiling & windows put in the camper. Next, we'll be working on putting in a kitchen, bathroom, table & a bed. For now, we can use cots, a fold up table & the little camp stove.

2 windows to be put in.

  

Doing the wiring 1st.

The lights work.

      

Me on standby to help when needed.
If you're like me, the heat & sweat
sneak in unexpectedly giving your
skin an icky yeast infection, you are
not alone. 

   

Cutting a hole for the big window.

Squirrels cooking in the crockpot for
supper, they smelt sooooo gooooood.

It fits!

Insulation in the ceiling.

Putting up the ceiling &
installing the lights.

Windows done.

Crappie

Kevin had good luck fishing this week. I stopped by the book fair.

Bass

I got this book for Grands. 
They have a little pug
that looks like this one.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Get out & have a wonderful weekend.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? The strawberries are blooming. We're planning to have fresh strawberries pretty soon. I harvested 2 more asparagus stalks & ate them for breakfast this morning with ham & eggs. Kevin has a birthday this weekend. He didn't get a turkey, said he didn't find much good turkey sign where he wanted to hunt, he went fishing instead. Easter was happiness & gratefulness as Grand's grandparents joined together for a joint Easter dinner & egg hunt. There was lots of good food & fellowship. Youngest Grands got bubble blowers that lite up making the ending of our celebration majestic. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage or how about an ice cream today? I'll tell you about our jeep riding this week, Kevin's deal at the grocery store & how many kittens we have. We'll be working on the enclosed tailer camper transformation this weekend then I'm heading out to hang out with Grands while their parents go on an outing.

Shared Easter treat, strawberry
 milkshake flavored.
 

It was so foggy at the top of the mountain,
we couldn't hardly see anything.

We went on a couple jeep rides this week. We had planned to go fishing on those days, but it was rainy one day & a little too cool & windy the other day for an enjoyable day on the lake. We rode on some roads we hadn't ever been on before. We checked out a few places that we thought would be good for camping, riding the side-by-side & maybe doing some creek fishing. We got windows & lights ordered for the camper. Kevin went to Home Depot & got insulation & ceiling panels. He thinks he already has some electrical wire.

Dutchman's Breeches

Beaver Den & Dam

 

Blue & stripped rocks
along the creek.

   

Squawroot also called bear corn.
It looked like pinecones. It
produces pollen. I saw a butterfly
 on it is how I seen it. It seems that
 bears have been known to dig it
up & eat the sweet ears.

Meat Cuber

Kevin got a 10-pound pork loin on sale for about 1/2 price at the grocery store. He sliced the meat then cubed it. I bagged & sealed it to put up in the freezer.

We have 2 little barn kittens.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend!

Let your light shine. A mix of
faith & fun.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. Happy Easter! How you doing? We have kittens. Two or 3 of them. The dogwood trees are blooming. I took apart Legos this week, so they can be worked again someday. I harvested 3 stalks of asparagus. Kevin went fishing & brought in several messes of fish. He cooked some up with tators & ramps for supper one night & the rest are going in the freezer. We've started saving a few eggs all along for hatching. When there's 42, they'll go in the incubator. Kevin planted some onion plants along with some carrot & radish seeds. Yesterday I got the results from the labs I had done last week. I impressed myself along with the doctor. My A1C was pre-diabetic at 6.3. I changed my whole way of thinking about food & eating. Now my A1C is in a normal range at 5.3. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & let's see what was blooming this week then I'm heading out this weekend to help hide lots of Easter eggs & Kevin is going turkey hunting.

Goldfinch visiting the feeder.

Mountain Air

We took a little road trip to get parts to fix the overheating of the side-by-side. It was a thrill ride for Grandboy Toddlers to get to ride in Pa's truck. Kevin changed out the relay switch & we went out for our next ride. The side-by-side started heating up again as we were going uphill just like it did last weekend. Kevin took out the fuse & wiggled things around. The fan started working, so it seems there is a loose connection somewhere. We had a good time in the mountains with Kevin's Uncle. We did some hiking, dug some more ramps, hunted for wildflowers, picnicked & saw some beautiful hidden waterfalls.

Big Rocks

Stick Bait

We had lunch sitting on logs at the
 edge of the ramp patch. We could
 reach down to get fresh ramps to
eat with lunch. My lunch was
a spinach salad, mustard sardines,
pork skins & a side of ramps.

 

Blood Root

Beaver Dam

 

Bluets

Using panty hose tied up 
did make good handles for 
dipping the nature print eggs.

We had a fun little Easter Day for Homeschool. We took a backroad on the way up & rode by the chicken houses. They have about 800,000 chickens according to their website, so that probably means they get between 700,000 & 800,000 eggs a day. One of the buildings caught on fire recently but we couldn't see that building from the road. We finished up our Dr Suess book reading. We did Dr Suess Read Across America all the month of March instead of just for a week since I do a Homeschool Day with Grands 1 day a week. Sister did a brief presentation about Easter symbols & their meanings. We each gave a presentation of something that happened on our birthday in history. We played an egg game matching homophone words, colored some spring coloring sheets, looked at bugs along with dyeing eggs & having several egg hunts. We tried doing a nature print for dying eggs. It was a fail. Instead of a cute leaf patten, we got blobs of undyed spots. Sister used those eggs to help Grands do egg shrink sleeves. Granny always helps with lunch & looks after the little ones. We all will say that the food is our favorite part of the day.

Granny's azalea was beautiful
in bloom & made good hiding
spots all around it for the
Easter eggs.

   

My people egg head.

 

 

Learning about bugs is fun &
interesting. April themes are
spring, bugs, camping &
community helpers.

Grand discovered this stonefly
skin. We looked it up to get
 the details about it. 

Pajama day & a visit from the Grinch during Dr Suess Month. We watched the
Grinch movie. Grands compared the book to the movie. We read Dr Seuss' 1st
book, last book, the book published after his death, the Grinch & others.

Happy Easter!

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?