Blueberry Hills Homestead

Maggie caught a fox in the yard last week. I think Maggie was trying to play with it! But it ran under the deck and hid.  Maggie wai...

I spent hours this weekend trying to make space for blueberry bushes by removing some Yucca from the side of the house.  The leaves are spik...

It's been a while... I've been mulling an update, but didn't feel like I had much to say since I didn't do much this winte...

I'm pretty proud of myself right now.  The new toilet is in and works fine.  There were only a few moments of, "uh oh, what do I do...

Here's one of the bathrooms in my midcentury house.  It's got cool, old tile on the floor and walls, and a genu-wine Universal Rundl...

I looked at my harvest yesterday morning.  Here it is (or will be).  Maybe. One tiny cucumber. One little tomato. Aaand ... that's i...

I think I have a few posts started but never posted over the last few weeks, so, since it's Labor Day and I'm starting the morning s...

I said I would wait, but I couldn't. I've been thinking about what changes I'm going to make to my yard, and had plans to ter...

Last night I found myself laying on the hammock on the porch to relax a bit before bed.  I haven't hammocked much this year as the Lyme ...

I went to visit the folks at the mountain house last weekend (friends of mine that are renting my homestead in the mountains).  We hung out ...

I so enjoyed watching hummingbirds feeding at my sister's house that I up and got a hummingbird feeder as soon as I got back from Oregon...

Here I am watching cop movies on Netflix, carding mohair, and waiting to be smacked upside the head by the sleep train.  You see, it goes li...

I can't explain it, except to say that I've lost the urge to blog.  I see things and think, "boy, that would be an interesting ...

I think. Only 2 parties looked at my house in the 5 months it was for sale and I was beginning to get a little desperate.  All the doom an...

A few people have mentioned being curious about what's going on with me these days, so I'll oblige.  It's just been so ... ho hu...

This is the first weekend that I've had no plans since I've bought this house.  It's a weekend of nothing special, piddling aro...

I've done a bunch of homestead-y things in the last week or so.  Most of them are firsts, or first-time variants.  Some of it isn't....

It snuck up on me, Desmond's last day.  He was fine in the morning and at dinner time, but when I got home from NM's house, he coul...