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.

~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!

Saturday, May 9, 2015

New kitchen update

Here is the progress we made on the kitchen today! A huge thanks to Papa Tom, Mimi and Bryce!!!!! 








The bead board paneling is all up and the kitchen and deck, turned workshop, are all cleaned up! More work to do but...


Tomorrow is mama's day! (Thanks for the cute jams Mimi and papa).  I'm looking forward to sleeping in, chocolate chip crepes made by Farmer J, homemade gifts from my boys (thank you teachers!) and dinner at J's parents, after another long day of moving! I feel like one blessed gal! 

PS: Pickle told me he has a special gift for me for Mother's Day ... But first he has to dig it up... Because he buried it... Of course! 

I do love being a little boy's mama!












Thursday, May 7, 2015

A late spring stroll...

Today was an absolutely beautiful day!  The weather was so perfect, the right combination of warmth, sun and a gentle breeze.  After our long winter, this day was a true gift from above.  So many times today, I said a small prayer of 'thanks' for this long awaited weather.




This tree smells sweet and lovely and wonderful.  I wish I could bottle up this smell and use it as  perfume.  Another gift of today, getting to smell this tree in full bloom one more time before we move.  Good thing we are moving to a farm with an orchard-- I now can't imagine spring without the aroma of fruit blossoms.

Goodnight barn!


Here are the twin boys.  Notice how they are already turning more white and less brown.
 
This little guy is still pretty dark but he is starting to lighten up too! 


 Bed night snack.
 
I'll miss the views of this place.  Everywhere I look, there is beauty. 

Eggs found in the small barn on our walk.  So clean.  I wonder how fresh they are?  We'll see at breakfast! 
 
 
Many of my readers know that we all read, "Little House in the Big Woods" (by Laura Ingalls Wilder) two winters ago and started, "Little House on the Prairie" this last winter.  In some ways, I feel like we are following in the Ingalls footsteps.  After living three years in this log home in the woods, we are moving to a new home on the prairie.   I find comfort in her words, that were written so long ago.  Another gift.
 
 
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks 
 


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

"Dandy Lions"


I LOVE it that my boys still pick me "Dandy Lions".  Their faces glow with love as they present me with these little bundles of yellow flowers!

Monday, May 4, 2015

Ewes, goats, lambs and hens ... Oh my!











Pictures of the new bungalow farmhouse...first floor


Front porch

Door bell ringer

Doorbell 


My future home office!

Stairway with carpet! So much safer than a slippery wooden staircase.

Formal dining room

Living room

Built in hutch

Back entry way

Kitchen

Breakfast nook










Sunday, April 26, 2015

First full car load

... To the new house!

And it's full of toys!  One thing I learned quickly, is that you need to have the boys toys at the new house, or all they're going to do is wrestle and fight and get in your way. So today I'm taking a whole carload of toys, which means they have way too many toys, to the new house. 


This weekend we also got a lot more work done on the kitchen renovation. Thank you so much to Mimi and Papa and Bryce for helping with the kitchen and with painting JJ's room. And a big thank you to Mima and Papa for taking the boys, to allow us to get all this work done.

Here's some pictures from the kitchen demo.





Wednesday, April 22, 2015

A nice goodbye!


Farmer J brought the newest little lamb to my car window to say goodbye to me before a long work trip! So sweet...and I'm referring to the lamb and my husband!

PS: notice the coat and hood up! 32 degrees and snowing!