Mike was out of town last week. He did his annual elk hunting trip in WY. Mike was successful and shot an elk. I’ll have a separate post on that next time. Before he left I insisted that something a little more permanent be done about the chickens since they were already growing out of [...]

You’ve heard me go on and on about our previous sectional woes, and we finally unloaded it before we moved here. A few months before we moved I started doing research about where/what I was going to get for our future living room furniture. By chance I came across an online store called Home Reserve [...]

I know the title is a bit deceiving, but I meant to type “overload” and ended up with overlord instead. It made me laugh, so it stays. We have had numerous requests for pictures of our farm and farmhouse, and I promise I will get around to it soon. I really just wanted to get [...]

The other night Mike and I were having a conversation about all the things that still needed to be done on our new homestead. Mike casually started wondering how we will handle the chickens he and the girls have been longing and planning to have one day. I replied that it’s not something we need [...]

We snuck back to the Brookings Children’s Museum on the same weekend we moved into the house, and this time we remembered to bring the bathing suits. The Knutsons met up with us and brought the 3 grandboys along, and the girls were beyond excited to see them again. We hope to see them more [...]