A few months ago I was out searching for a used dresser for Violet because the two dressers the three girls had been sharing just didn’t provide enough room. Unfortunately, finding a used dresser in this town is seemingly impossible, so I ended up getting a new dresser for Violet which now goes in the [...]

Now that the weather is taking a turn for the cold (it got down to 2 degrees last night) we have been staying closer to home base. The girls have been wanting to go to the Lanes, the local bowling alley, since we’ve moved here. We finally had a quiet enough weekend to go check [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]