That’s not shopping at all

    Aug 29, 2008 | Decorating, Homesteading Life

    After the visit to the doctor today, we ventured over to IKEA (yes, twice in one week which is scary to us too) and thought we were going to pick up the DVD shelves and chest of drawers from IKEA. We noticed that everything was about to go up in price with the new...

    So hard to say “I’m sorry”

    Aug 27, 2008 | Decorating, Homesteading Life, Pregnancy

    We took a trip to IKEA today. It wasn’t so bad. The store was fairly empty and we got some really good ideas for the house. We have quite a few rooms that will be getting a makeover, mostly because we have to make some space for Mackenzie. Her room (currently...

    Back to the usual

    Aug 18, 2008 | Family, Homesteading Life

    Yesterday was pretty quiet for us. We did a couple smallish things around here but not really anything worth noting. Mostly we worked on internet stuff and watched lots of Olympics coverage (thanks to our hard disk recorder since everything good comes on at 2am here.)...

    Hay Girl, Hay!

    Aug 16, 2008 | Homesteading Life

    We’re no stranger to having random people drop by, asking if we still rent trained doves to fly at weddings and events (and no, we do not.) But earlier this week, a woman stopped in and asked if we were selling hay. For her guinea pig, of course. I have to say...

    Blackberry foraging, Part 1

    Aug 16, 2008 | Food, Homesteading Life

    When we took Ayla for a walk this morning, we grabbed a couple of Tupperware containers and carrying bags so we could raid the blackberry bushes near our standard walking area. We picked for about 30 minutes I guess, canvasing a pretty large area of berry bushes and...