The Joy of Hobby Farming review
A little while back, I was approached by Skyhorse Publishing, regarding an opportunity to write a review of any book on their website. I have to admit, there were about 50 books I would love to read on their website, and it took me a lot of time to select one that I thought would […]
Is the weekend here yet?
We’re running around here and packing up the last boxes, eating our way through what is left in the freezer and getting loose ends tied up. The Defender has now left the building and we’ve got at least 85% of our stuff packed. The goal is to have it all ready to go by Thursday […]
Capturing summer
I’ve been out of the You Capture “game” for the last few weeks due to all the moving chaos, but I’m really looking forward to thing settling down in the coming weeks and getting back to the challenges. This week, the focus was on summer. And although it’s been a bit of a strange summer […]
Deep cleaning old wooden floors
After spending a few days in our new apartment (earlier this week), we realized one glaring problem: the beautiful wooden floors are hideously dirty It’s not that they look dirty, because as you may have noticed in the photos they are quite pretty and light (I’m guessing pine). But after walking around on the floors […]
A massive cleanup effort in the barn
As part of the official clean out the farm project which ruled our lives recently, we decided to go ahead and get some order in the barn…and especially the workshop. I don’t have too many before photos of what our barn looked like before we started giving stuff away on Freecycle and throwing out the […]