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Fall Fermenting With Pictures!

I purchased Sandor Katz’s The Art of Fermentation and I have fallen in love with fermenting everything.  Well, I have stopped at fermenting the dogs.     Pickles, relish, I’ve even started doing naturally fermented root beers…have I mentioned that I love fermented stuff?   Oh, I see I have. I just looked back over my … Continue reading »

Categories: Autumn, Blogging, Dirt, Family, Fermentation, Flowers, Horses, I Have No Idea How to Label This, Peppers, Spiritual Disciplines, Squash & Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Vicktory Farm and Gardens, Weather, Work | 1 Comment

Another Farmer Enters the World!

Tuesday evening, October 9th, it was just another end of an intense harvest day for me, ready to cry over a sink blanketed on the bottom with tomato scraps as the last batch of peeled tomatoes went into the pot to heat up before being packed in jars. Then the call came, our oldest daughter, … Continue reading »

Categories: Family | 7 Comments

Fair Was Awesome!

It was the best Fair I’ve experienced so far (as an exhibitor in the Animals of the World Barn, not to include the State Fairs as a parent), in spite of coming down with whatever this sore throat, drippy nose, heavy chest thing is.    The Fair Began Early for VF&G Usually Bet and I … Continue reading »

Categories: Family, The Fair | 6 Comments

See You At State Fair!

I can hardly believe that it is State Fair time already!  Wow what a summer we’ve had.  I meant to make a post and call it, “Haying Season, It was the best of times and the worst of times”.  But then haying season was long since gone and the post rather stale.  Maybe when I … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Family, Farming, Vicktory Farm and Gardens, Weather | 6 Comments

Happy Onion Day!

Here at 46.94°N it is Onion Day!  Today is the day they will receive 15+ hours of sunlight here and begin to bulb.  Happy bulbing to you! and yours! This is one of my “Keepsake” onions, they and “Keeper” wintered over quite nicely. So did my Ailsa Craigs, except for the odd occurrence of much … Continue reading »

Categories: Family, Farming, Weather | 6 Comments

Cloud Formations On the Farm

So exactly how is a cloud formed?  By blowing off steam doncha think Dear Reader?  Steam is water vapor and water vapor in the atmosphere is a cloud eh?  And we all speak of dust clouds don’t we?  I fail to see this as a stretch.     Well I bet Imac never guessed I could pull … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Dirt, Family, Rules, Sheep | 11 Comments

Hey, I Can Do This, Not a Problem

Well, it is five weeks and five days ’til Dirt loses his Anna and she becomes another man’s girl.  So if I seem a wee bit more sporadic than usual or I start babbling endlessly and you’ve gotta slap me, you’ll know I haven’t gone whack-a-do,   just,   uh..   okay, whack-a-do.  The dresses are all secured and … Continue reading »

Categories: Building A Future, Dad, Daughters, Family | 6 Comments

Getting Back to Why

This moving blog hosts and the learning new blogging skills while trying to learn web site making skills for a future web page for the farm along with an already full life of planting and weeding and painting and cooking has made the transition long but it has revealed many things to me and the … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Building A Future, Change, Family, God the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Homemaking, Marriage | 7 Comments

Remembering, Doing, and Looking Forward, All in a Saturday’s Work

How’s the Hothouse and Market Shed project going? Well this is where I left you last, the big trees were down,   the little brushy trees got cut out, and I kept looking at what it was going to be. . Last Sunday, the last day of February, Mr. Leonard, Leonard and Sons Excavating, came … Continue reading »

Categories: Family, Farm Make Over, Lambing, Vicktory Farm and Gardens, Weather | 15 Comments

Kai’s Birthday Bash

Today is Kai’s eighth birthday, that means Eric and Steph are about to celebrate their ninth anniversary! Wow how time does fly. Isn’t this the absolute best winter birthday cake you ever did see? I would want one even in August! Patty Mor Mor, Kai’s other grandmother, makes the absolute best cakes ever! Not only … Continue reading »

Categories: Dirt, Family, Good friends, Grandsons, Surviving the Dark and Rain | 7 Comments