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For the car & history buffs out there

Mar 13, 2007 | Homesteading Life

We were curious about the cars in the old photos from the house so we thought we’d research them a bit. Thankfully we know someone who works as a car analyst with hubby so he was able to find out what the car in the photo below was relatively quickly. We...

Our first new tree for the house :)

Mar 13, 2007 | Garden

We bought a tree this weekend and it will hopefully be delivered in the next few days. We are replacing the dead cedar in front of the house (see below) with an oleander tree like the one in the photo below. We figure it should look really lovely in front of the house...

Plans for the upcoming weekend

Mar 12, 2007 | Garden

Since the weather this weekend was so incredible, we were outside trying to figure out what our best plan of attack is on the vines that are overtaking the back of the barn and roof, the vines and roses growing on the “trellis” on the storage buildings and...
Even more old photos…

Even more old photos…

Mar 12, 2007 | Homesteading Life

We know you’ve been waiting for them all weekend…so here they are 🙂 These are just a few photos of the family who used to live here and the great times they apparently had, despite the fact that difficult times were underway. The photo below is dated 1940...

A frightening new disease – watch out Gulf States

Mar 12, 2007 | Pets

This disease has been discussed on the Newf-L list recently because a Newf recently succumbed to it. Pythiosis is a very nasty disease and since it’s fairly new and usually unreported, many people many not be aware of it. The website pythiosis.com describes the...