I spent 2 hours cutting grass with the scythe, pulling weeds and pruning bushes in the garden Friday. The grass was 1-3 feet tall back there and just getting out of hand. Mackenzie was kind enough to sleep through the entire thing which allowed me to really get down to business. I was covered in sweat when I […]

Almost 2 1/2 weeks since my last post. I know; it’s just not acceptable! The first week I didn’t have much of an excuse. Stefan was on vacation but we only went to visit his parents for a few days – so I should have been able to keep you updated. Last week, I was […]

I know it was a month ago already (WHAT?!?!) but I’ve been busy. So please forgive the lateness of this post…oh, and thee are still two more parts to the christening weekend to come. Maybe I will get those done before June is over… As the parent of a young child, you often get to […]

I mentioned briefly that we had all our water tanks set up now. When we added a 1000 liter IBC tank to our courtyard, it replaced a 120 liter rain barrel. So we moved the small rain barrel over by the guest house where another rain barrel was already sitting. Then bought a little plastic […]

I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That’s over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there’s going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks. What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I’m planning to make pound cake […]