Early this summer I decided to buy a new cookbook. I (and my family) were a little tired of the same old same old. After reading reviews and even testing some recipes from other books (listed on the author’s website), I purchased this one.
I have not been disappointed. While I am far from having cooked [...]
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Remember the many dog conversations in the movie UP! interrupted with, “Squirrel!” ? I laughed so hard because we have dogs and a plethora of squirrels here on the farm. Just the other day our dog jumped out of the back of a moving truck as my husband drove across the creek bridge. Why? There [...]
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I’ve been experimenting with quite a few new recipes this summer so I thought I’d share one my family has been requesting again. In fact, we’re having it for dinner tonight. Let’s get started.
You’ll need 4 bonleless, skinless chicken breasts. When I photographed this recipe, I used frozen because that’s what I had. Today I [...]
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Last night my husband asked, “Are you ever going to blog again?” So here I am. Blogging again. Perhaps this isn’t the best welcome back post for some, but this is our life. Last summer I blogged about processing chickens here with the title Chickens: Not for the Sqeamish. That title still applies. Take heed [...]
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The children were all finally in bed. I turned to Nate and asked, “Do you remember when we lived in Springville and you would come home from work? We’d eat dinner, I’d do the dishes, and we’d all go for a walk?”
He nodded.
I glanced at the clock showing 9 PM. “I’m still on the do [...]
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GASP! Just coming up for air. Yes, I am here. It’s been insanely busy this summer. I’ve been taking pictures so I’ll try to get y’all caught up on summer life on the Ranch.
The cows were out of feed so it was time to move them to a fresh pasture. We all gathered and began [...]
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Our string of six birthdays in eight weeks is over.
End of school year plays have been performed.
Advancement speeches have been made.
And now all the children are home with Mom. Time for spring cleaning. I envisioned all the cleaning taking the first week of summer break. We’ve begun week two and aren’t even halfway there yet, [...]
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This is our water. Once it melts we have no way of storing it. That means after the fourth of July, we can’t water our crops. How many of you stop watering your gardens or yards at the height of summer heat? Eighty years ago a plan was established to remedy this situation. A storage [...]
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It was a cold, blustery, rainy day. The cowgirls and cowboys saddled their horses amidst pelting rain and gusts of wind. I watched them leave, then stepped into my nice warm house. They herded the cows across sage brush and fields to their new spring pasture green with feed. I think the herd is pretty [...]
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I’ve been struggling to revise my WIP (Work in Progress). Struggling as in where do I start? I see the problems, but how to fix them? Anonymous offered valuable feedback, but a gnawing feeling that I needed to delve more deeply into revisions persisted. So I began searching and reading. And then reworking and revising. [...]
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Moroni Feed Company is famous for its BBQ Turkey recipe for good reasons. This is one of the best ways to eat turkey. It’s even delicious served cold. Killer Beans are the perfect complement to this main dish. The store was out of turkey the Saturday night before our Spring break so I bought chicken [...]
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Well, it took two more evenings to complete the hoop house. First Nate cut a couple of PVC pipes into two foot lengths and glued them to the other pipes making them longer.
Next, he removed the twine from the four posts
and replaced it with this.
Then we attached short lengths of twine to one row of [...]
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I blogged about the grow rack Nate built here. This is what our tomato and pepper starts looked like about two weeks ago. They’re bigger now. Originally, we had planned to transplant them into the hoop house in our garden on May 1. Mother Nature had different plans. We got part of the hoop house [...]
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I am the mother of five learning to live in the country surrounded by in-laws. I've been married to the amazing Nate Palmer for 15 years; he is teaching me how to be a farm girl in between chasing children, cooking dinner, and doing laundry. In my spare time (okay--time I try really hard to set aside), I like to write.
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." ~Pamela Vaull Starr°Click my About page for this year's goals.
