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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Saturday, December 31, 2022

The Monster Chicken

Typically, when I raise broiler chickens, they all end up basically the same size. Most in the 4 to 4.5 pound range at 7-8 weeks. Occasio...

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

I Should Know Better

I really should know better than to trust something I saw on the internet. But I couldn't resist trying a new cookie recipe. It sound...

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Our Homegrown Christmas Tree

This year, we didn't buy a pre-cut tree for our Christmas tree. Neither did we go to a tree farm and cut one down. Instead, we went to...

Friday, December 23, 2022

Talkin' Trash

Or, rather, complaining about trash. Actually, the cost of removing said trash. About Spring of 2016 we cancelled our residential trash ...

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Riding As The Weather Turns; December Horse Update

For the most part, I've been able to continue my three times a week riding schedule on Camaro. Now and then I've substituted a lon...

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Mystery Food

Several years ago, I wrote this post about a frozen hunk of meat that had been given to us by my mother in law. It was missing it's o...

Friday, December 16, 2022

Eating The Food We Planted For Our Food To Eat

For the past few years, DH has turned one corner of our field into a deer food plot. In part of the corner is ryegrass, and in another he ...

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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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