The biggest post of the year is here. 2019 was the year of trying to get stuff done through respiratory illness. The list of goals I wrote at the start of the year could be described as insane, which I realised fairly soon after. I wasn’t counting on a rollercoaster of respiratory issues to carry … More 2019 Homestead Report
Following on from Part 1… The Garden The last few seedlings have been planted so there are no more plants sitting on the outdoor table, just a few things growing in the Craft Room. Some of our broccoli plants bolted due to the unusually hot patch we had, or due to weather fluctuations. The three … More Christmas & Pre-Christmas: Part 2
We’re all suffering from a bit of weather shock. The wintery spring with cold winds and grey skies suddenly turned into the heat of summer. We we’re getting hot weather normally reserved for high summer. It felt like one minute it was too windy and cold to plant out the young vege seedlings and the … More Is it Winter or Summer? Oh, Spring…
The chicks have finished hatching and, as I expected, 8 out of the 9 hatched. The first one was a little fasty. It pipped at the wrong end of the the egg but made it out by itself towards the end of Day 20. Most of the chicks hatched later on Day 21 or on … More In Which The Little Fluffballs Arrive
