Field Trip~Freshwater Fisheries Center

Freshwater Fishery Trip! As bona fide homeschoolers with an adorable gaggle of girls in our little group you know we have to take lots of field trips. Well, not LOTS. But enough to keep it fun and we recently had our best one ever! If you are ever within an hour or so of Athens,…

Digging ‘Taters

As you may have seen in previous posts, weeding isn’t my strong point. However I can do one thing, I can grow some pretty ‘taters! Potatoes are, without a doubt, my favorite veggie to grow. You plant them on Valentine’s Day, a perfectly romantic thing to do, then dig’em up around Memorial Day, just in…

Head Chicken

So my darling child had her first piano recital this weekend and was all dressed up, first thing she did upon arriving home was take off to the chicken pen.  I wanted to check on the little ones who had only been with the big chickens a few days and this is what I find…….…

They call me Tater Tot….

I’d like to introduce y’all to Tater Tot. Now I’ve had Tater Tot, or Tater as he is commonly called, for about 8 years now. Tater and I go WAY back.  He packed out the first elk I ever shot and my husbands elk the same year… And he has been packing ever since….. But…

Toffee Squares

My favorite person I’ve never met is Ree Drummond, also known as The Pioneer Women.  Anytime I need a sure enough good recipe and am hankering to try something new I head over to her blog and am never disappointed!  So this last weekend I needed a fast, easy dessert to take to a lake party. …

America the Beautiful

It is Memorial Day weekend and like most people I spent some time at the lake with friends, ate a hotdog and got a mild sunburn.  I also went for a walk like I often do at the state forest near our home.  As I walked I began to reflect on Memorial Day and what…

Coming Out Party

One of my favorite things about having chickens is getting to throw coming out parties! Of course the chickens aren’t nearly as into it as I am but for me…its a highlight! You see when I bring home my adorable little chickies they are kept safely tucked away in a (mostly) varmint proof pen until…

Chicken Salad

I’m not sure if it is quite right to publish recipes for chicken on a site that serves to honor, love and cherish chickens. On the other hand I honor, love and cherish Chicken Salad. So, we just won’t worry about offending the flock, they can’t read anyway. Chicken Salad is a funny thing, everyone seems…

I Spy

Let’s play a game in my garden called “I spy the onions” Here, here are the onions! I figured since my onion crop was about to be drowned in a sea of weeds I better go ahead and pull them while I could still find them…. Its a good thing God is in charge of growing…

Meet the Flock-Part One

I want you to meet the flock, my reason for being a ‘wicked chicken’, cause it takes a wicked chicken to protect the whole group.  So over the next few weeks you will get to meet all the girls.  But first of all….top leader, main man, rooster for the ages, lover of hens bantam and standard alike,…