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Last Saturday I bought a case of apples from my favorite apple orchard, Millstone Creek Orchards in Ramseur, NC. I have been getting my apples from there since 2012. I enjoy visiting with Beverly, the owner, each year. On my first visit, I learned… Continue Reading “Apples to Applesauce”
As I went to my favorite apple orchard, Millstone Creek Orchards, this weekend to get apples for applesauce, I came across a sight I didn’t expect to see again after leaving Wyoming. Bison! As you enter Cheyenne from the south there is a Bison… Continue Reading “Well, there’s a sight I didn’t think I’d see again”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first chick, one of the Laced Blue Bells, hatched about 3:00 a.m., June 28th, and announced her arrival vociferously. The cheeping was So Loud, it woke me up! I got Oscar (eldest grandson) and Emmett (youngest grandson) out of bed to ooh and… Continue Reading “The Hatching”
“We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?” — S. Parkes Cadman Friday, June 7, we started 7 eggs in the incubator. Friday, June 26th, was lockdown. Two days to… Continue Reading “Lockdown! (of the chicken variety)”
Seedless watermelons were on sale at the grocery store, so guess what I did? That’s right, I fired up the dehydrator! Eating dehydrated watermelon in the middle of winter is like having a blast of summer in your mouth. The flavor is concentrated and… Continue Reading “Storing Summer Sweetness”
When my oldest grandson came to live with me this Spring, I realized I would now have a bit of brawn at my disposal to implement some of the loftier schemes I have been unable to do by myself. Thus, my long-standing intention of… Continue Reading “A Little Chicken”
Two Chickens Homestead 
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