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Prep Monday—A Week of Winter

The weather forecast, aside from the blowing flurries today, seems to be gifting us with some cold and possible snow accumulation. Gee, thanks, weather! While that means that all our outside prepping is being put on a short—very short—hiatus, we have plenty to do at our STL house: Painting Packing Moving—at least as far as […]

Prep Monday—Prepper Fail

The Farm Time started out this week mostly “as usual.” We drove a while, unloaded, put away the stuff we brought down. We ate a quick lunch and got to work on the end of the remodel. Thank goodness. The next day was gorgeous—the mercury hit almost 70 and that’s about when I realized the […]

Work Wednesday—What’s Left to Do?

Well, I’ll tell you: a lot! I promise, I’ll do a photomontage after we complete the finishing touches on the house, but for now we’re moving on to other things . . . For starters, we’ve been and will continue to move more furniture into the house now that the floors are done. My husband […]

Prep Monday—How to be a Prepper

For many, this is a no-brainer: be prepared for an emergency, right? But where do you start, and how? And how expensive is it, really? Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking about different aspects of prepping and how exactly one goes about getting prepared for . . . See, that’s part of the […]

Fan Friday—Politics

Yes, I’m going there. I’m going to break a cardinal rule regarding talk of religion, politics, and money. Okay, not the religion or money, but still . . . I’m really, really tired of people bashing politicians—particularly the GOP. Yes, I said that. I’m a Republican. Surprised? See, I’m a child of a mixed marriage: […]

Fan Friday—Let’s Talk about Protesting

A lot of protesting in the news the last few years, like Ferguson and Baltimore, the Bundy stand-off; just to name two. And people can argue both sides, all day long. I’ve talked about Ferguson, particularly since it’s so close to me, and I’ve tried to be fair and to boil things down to the […]

Work Wednesday—How Much Longer?

Here are some fun facts about the farm: We first saw the farm, online, in late January; we were unable to go see it because of snow . . . that was almost one year ago. We made an offer two weeks later—and still hadn’t seen the property in person. We started signing paperwork, disclosures […]

Prep Monday—Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

And of course, you’re prepared for this, right? The kid is prepared too—he left for church this morning at 7:00 a.m. with temps in the single digits and windchills hovering around -16. Naturally, I reminded him to make sure his windshield was clear and that, if he had any trouble, to stay in the car […]

Fan Friday—Resolutions

I’m sure most people think about making those New Year’s resolution, and many actually do. I’d like to know the percentage of people who follow through and keep them for a month, or six, or even all year . . . I don’t need to make any this year, because I found the ones I’d […]

Work Wednesday—NOT at the Farm

Well, while all this remodeling has just been a barrel of laughs, a super fun activity and all that, this week’s post is brought to you by Paperwork. Sigh. It’s not bad enough that January 1st brings the beginning of the month, which means a few hours doing royalty statements for RHP, but it also […]