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?