This Little Place Here

Random thoughts and experiences on my little piece of earth. Kids, gardening, chickens, heating with wood, hunting, food preservation and much more!

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Pickled Deer Heart

Now that DH got a deer, it's time to make a hunting season tradition: pickled heart. It's a pretty simple process. First, clean...

Monday, October 29, 2012

First Deer of the Season!

At this little place here, we are doing the happy dance. We have fresh venison hanging in the barn. This is the earliest in the fall that ...

Sunday, October 28, 2012

My First Brussels Sprouts

Well, not exactly the first, if you're thinking in terms of "She's never eaten Brussels sprouts before?". I have. And as...

Friday, October 26, 2012

I Love Eating Local

Recently, DD1 was briefly home from college on a short mid-term break. One of the things she has missed most in her almost two months away...

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Some Improvisation Required

My chicken coop used to have a very nice glass window in the front side. A large, wooden framed window that I had gotten for free at the en...

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Got The Hubby's Out of Town Blues

DH is traveling again. Nothing new; he's been doing it for almost 18 years. And, even before that, we spent three months living apart ...

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Farm Justice

We've had a few chickens go missing around this little place here lately, as well as two barn kittens. Then DD2 found a possum eating c...

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Kris: Living life just a little bit different from most. Growing our food, cooking from scratch every day, mom of four, grandmother of ten--so far, jack-of-all-trades (and master of a few!)

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