Homestead Acres » Just Thoughts http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog Encouraging Simplicity In A Hectic World Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:21:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Around The Homestead Sick Days And Garden Update http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/around-the-homestead-sick-days-and-garden-update/ http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/around-the-homestead-sick-days-and-garden-update/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:17:48 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=2007 This past week we’ve been fighting a flu like bug.  It really knocked Hubby, ds and myself for a loop.  The girls were a little sick as well.  Thankfully it didn’t last long, although I’m still fighting it.  I’m sure if I can get enough rest it will pass quickly.

Wednesday we had a cold front move through.  Thankfully the heavy rain and storms staid south of us!  I was finally well enough to head out to the garden this afternoon.  I did a lot of weeding, still have much more to do before I will be caught up.  But weeds or not, the garden is producing great!

I harvested a large bowl of cucumbers, 4 more zucchinis and our first cabbage.  Then from the children garden we harvested more cucumbers, a few purple beans and cherry tomatoes.

Huckleberry’s

Okra finally starting!  This will be our first time growing and eating this.  Anyone have good recipes I can try?

Eggplant flower, I think they are pretty!

Sunflowers starting to bloom in the kids garden!

]]> http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/around-the-homestead-sick-days-and-garden-update/feed/ 4 Around The Homestead Gardens & Canning http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/around-the-homestead-gardens-canning/ http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/around-the-homestead-gardens-canning/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:03:03 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=1715 Well today was a busy day on the homestead.  Today I canned 7 pints of pickled beets and 6 pints of cherry jam, if you don’t count the 3/4′s full jar.  That’s getting tuck into the fridge to enjoy now.

We headed out to the gardens this afternoon, to find the Italian zucchinis had exploded with the last rain.  We harvested a whole wheelbarrow full.  Two had already been taken out before I took this photo.   I will have a lot of canning and drying to do!  I might start on my zucchini relish soon to.

I also picked 1/3 of a storage bin full of green beans.  I guess I’m canning and drying beans tomorrow to!

Hubby just finished building a grape arbor for us.  We have a grape vine planted on each end.  I love having it as an entrance into the raised beds!

The Swish Chard is growing great to!

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]]> http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/homeschooling/seagull-photos/feed/ 1 Getting Caught Up In The Gardens http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/getting-caught-up-in-the-gardens/ http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/gardening/getting-caught-up-in-the-gardens/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:54:23 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=1464 Well the flooding in the gardens has gone down.  Thankfully we have had no rain in the last 3 days.  Although the weather has been very cool 16 to 18 C it has been windy.  That has helped to dry up the ground.

This afternoon I headed out to do some weeding.  The ground is still soft, but not as mucky.  At least that makes weeding by hand easier!  I finished weeding the Italian zucchinis, eggplant and two rows of tomatoes.  Many more to go! LOL!  I did harvest to large zucchinis and sadly found a few that had rotted during the heavy rains.  I could hear water inside the stems of the zucchini plants to.  But at least we are starting to harvest the zucchinis, we love them!

Since tomorrow is Canada Day here we’ll be enjoying a quiet day at home.  And I hope to do more weeding.

We have been working at my sewing room renovations.  It’s done!! So the last few days I’ve been unpacking bins of fabric and yarn.  Its taking a while to get things set up the way I want.  But I’ll share photos when I have it done.  Now we can start working on the summer kitchen side again!



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]]> http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/reno-update-found-newspapers-from-1920s-under-the-floor/feed/ 5 Have You Seen Our New Forum? http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/have-you-seen-our-new-forum/ http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/have-you-seen-our-new-forum/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 11:00:46 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=1326 A few months ago we added a forum to our site.  I had chosen Ning as the host.  Well as many people may have heard Ning decided to shut down all of the free networks this summer.  After looking over their options, I wasn’t happy with the pricing compared to features/service.


So I’ve moved our  network back to our main website!  It was a lot of work to build, but I love it and I hope you will to!


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Iceland volcano

Year without a summer

Laki volcano

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]]> http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/winter-is-back-for-a-few-days/feed/ 1 How we Like YouTube And Some Of The Politics Of It http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/how-we-like-youtube-and-some-of-the-politics-of-it/ http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/just-thoughts/how-we-like-youtube-and-some-of-the-politics-of-it/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:17:41 +0000 Kim http://www.homestead-acres.com/blog/?p=1230 We made this vid back in February and haven’t had time to get it up.   It may sound a bit like complaining but its not.  Just some observations.  We enjoy YouTube and there will be more to come.  Thanks to all of our subs!

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