Trying out something new. A new way of living. A more simple life. One farmer. One farmer's wife. Two boys. Two rams. Six ewes. Two goats. Two pigs. Three rescue kittens. Nine hens. Two bee hives. Room to roam. Room to get dirty. Room to grow in mid-west soil. A wary farm wife because this is a new life for our family. But God is good and so are fresh eggs.
John Muir quote
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~Protective Mama
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~John Muir
Welcome to The Wary Farmwife seasonal journey! My goal, to blog daily (give or take a day, week or month) to showcase hobby farm life across the seasons. Stop by The Wary Farmwife blog and check out what we're up to...our front porch door is always open!
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Spring...cleaning!
Moon roof open while I drop off my winter sweaters, down comforters and jacket at the dry cleaners! Spring cleaning over my lunch break feels so good!
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Farmer J's garden
We may not have a farm yet...but we are already dreaming of a summer garden! If we buy seeds, will the farm come?! Just like the field of dreams?!
Norwex Delivery
I found a big ole Norwex box at our back door when we got home today! It included some of my essential cleaning tools that I ran out of last month!
Spirinetts for cleaning inside the greasy oven...spirisponge for cleaning our cast iron pots, stove top, kitchen sink and tub...ultra power plus laundry detergent...and my favorite blue dishcloth! This dishcloth works wonders for getting cheese and eggs off your dishes...but not stuck in your dishcloth! And we eat lots of eggs and cheese in this Midwest farmhouse, so it's always handy to have quite a few around! And the new blue color keeps the cloth from looking dingy!
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
My 250th Post!
I have exciting news for my 250th post!
(Sorry, it's not about Aoife-- we still do not have any baby lambs. But if Aoife has lambs on Friday, March 6th, they will share the same birthday as Una!)
Our exciting news is that we have decided NOT to renew our rental lease on this farm. The timing is right for us to move toward "greener pastures", as the ole' farmer's like to say.
Where are we going? Well... we are not sure yet. We tried to buy a foreclosure farm, but that fell through. At first, I was very sad but now I see that living on that farm just wasn't right for our family. And as it turns out, living here just doesn't feel right anymore either. We are hoping God blesses us with another accepted offer on a new property (maybe that country bungalow built in 1919)... and that this sale goes through without a hitch. Please say a five second pray for us to find a peaceful, warm and lovely place to live with our two sons, four sheep, 11 chickens and new baby lambs. I'm praying for patience, faith and more patience!
I'm back to being a very "wary farmwife" as I have absolutely NO idea where we will be living in June... but I trust that God is good...(just as fresh eggs!)
-The Wary Farmwife
PS: Thank you to all my faithful readers, especially Mimi, Mima and Karina! I love you all!
(Sorry, it's not about Aoife-- we still do not have any baby lambs. But if Aoife has lambs on Friday, March 6th, they will share the same birthday as Una!)
Our exciting news is that we have decided NOT to renew our rental lease on this farm. The timing is right for us to move toward "greener pastures", as the ole' farmer's like to say.
Where are we going? Well... we are not sure yet. We tried to buy a foreclosure farm, but that fell through. At first, I was very sad but now I see that living on that farm just wasn't right for our family. And as it turns out, living here just doesn't feel right anymore either. We are hoping God blesses us with another accepted offer on a new property (maybe that country bungalow built in 1919)... and that this sale goes through without a hitch. Please say a five second pray for us to find a peaceful, warm and lovely place to live with our two sons, four sheep, 11 chickens and new baby lambs. I'm praying for patience, faith and more patience!
I'm back to being a very "wary farmwife" as I have absolutely NO idea where we will be living in June... but I trust that God is good...(just as fresh eggs!)
-The Wary Farmwife
PS: Thank you to all my faithful readers, especially Mimi, Mima and Karina! I love you all!
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