The piglets have been darling and I spend several minutes a day out in the pen just observing and enjoying the antics of Wattles nine piglets. Even though aspects of having pigs on the farm have been stressful, these cuties have lightened my heart tremendously. But, this week, I have more new babies. I now […]
For the entire month of April, until these past few days, we have not received any rain. The rain did finally come and it was a nice, slow, steady rain. The kind that soaks in nicely and doesn’t wash away all my topsoil. I actually love the rain, but my spirit begins to sag after
Although parts of Oklahoma have seen some devastating tornadoes already this year, we have not experienced any. We have had our share of wind though. I know it doesn’t compare in the least to the horrific damage a tornado produces. I am, however, in the process of repairing wind damaged animal structures here. We like
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I understand that owning animals can come with costs that occasionally end up being more than just infrastructure, and feed. I understood this with each and every animal type I’ve taken on. Still, I’ve tried to keep my costs to a minimum to the best of my ability. In the past five years, I don’t
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I love Spring, although, in many ways Fall is probably more my favorite season. There seem to be more days in the Fall where the weather is steady and nice. The temperatures are more stable along with the weather events. In Spring, the welcomed warmer weather is volatile; torrential rains, hail, tornadoes, twenty degrees one
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I try to like vegetables. Therefore, I try different recipes to see if it’ll make them tastier. I got a version of this off Foodily.com by The No Meat Athlete years ago and it isn’t too bad. As always, modify all recipes to fit your likes. I do. 2 Tablespoons Butter 2/3 cup Quinoa 1
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I understand that I am sixty years old and will not be able to maintain the level of activity that I’d like to forever. But I plan to do it for as long as I can. God has a way of reminding me on occasion that He is the one in charge; not me.I have
Christmas is over; the New Year is no longer new; my granddaughter’s basketball season is over; this website has been wonderfully updated by someone who knows a lot more than I do about that sort of thing.So, what has kept me from posting here?This could be considered just a list of excuses, but, here goes.I’ve
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It has been an exciting past few months and changes keep coming. I say “bring them on!”After changing the name of my main YouTube channel from Ellis Family Farms to Grandma’s Homestead, I realized that my website (I’ll bet most of you didn’t even know I had a website!) also needed some dramatic changes.Unfortunately, my
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Like so many others in world, it appears that I have taken on more than I can handle properly. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to cut back anywhere, though. It just means that I have to buckle down and prioritize and, yes, work harder. It has been a couple of weeks since I actually
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