Several years ago at an auction I admired an old water pump and my husband, Scott, bought it for me, but it sat in the workshop for a year or more before I figured out what I wanted to do with it. One day I was sitting on my front porch, looking at a patch …
This is the Spiritual Corridor daylily. I bought it a few years ago from Breck’s. I buy plants through catalogs quite a bit. Especially in the winter when it’s so bleak outside, I enjoy looking through my plant catalogs and finding new flowers I want to try, and combinations that I think would be nice. Here …
I bought this Coal Miner Daylily from Roots & Rhizomes a few years ago. It started blooming today. I like it’s chartreuse throat and deep purple color. You can have more posts like this sent straight to your inbox by subscribing!
I love these big, beautiful “Ruby Spider” daylilies. They’re huge! About 7″ in diameter. Their colors are vibrant, and the red looks like velvet. Do you have a favorite daylily? I’d love to see a picture! If you love gardening like I do, why not subscribe and get more posts like this one delivered straight …
I could have named my blog something about leaving my comfort zone, because it seems like I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. In The Birth of Curren Christian Academy, I shared how we began homeschooling. That was a big leap out of my comfort zone. My biggest fear in homeschooling was that I wouldn’t do …
I wasn’t familiar with the term “Livestock Guard Dog,” (LGD for short) before moving to the farm. I had heard of the Great Pyrenees breed, but not “Akbash,” a breed which originated in Turkey and means “white head.” A few years into my country life, a neighbor’s dog had a litter of puppies. Through her …
In my very first Blog post I mentioned Stitch Fix. Today I happened to be wearing one of the tops I bought in one of my first “Fixes,” before I decided to blog, so I asked my daughter to take some pictures for me. I’m camera shy and I never like how I look in pictures, so her …
There was a tragic accident near our home in Rockport, Texas, many years ago. I still vividly remember the article on the front page of our small town’s newspaper. It was Memorial weekend and a family was coming to Rockport on vacation, but just as they were about to cross the bridge into town, they were …
How we came to homeschooling.
Several years ago we had a large assortment of poultry, but over the years the flock had dwindled until we were down to a rooster and four hens that were all about seven years old, and a lone drake. Carried Away We decided we were ready to get some new birds, so we went to …