New Blog Posts Coming Soon!

Yikes! Has it truly been nearly a month since my last post?! We have been so busy doing our simple farm stuff that there just isn't much time left to sit on the computer and write blog articles. I want to though, so I'll have to figure out a way!

We spend most of our days at our day jobs. I'm a writer and editor and Chief Farmhand Chris provides management consulting for a small grocery chain. Our afternoons are filled with farm chores whether it be in the garden, the fields, building a chicken coop, maintaining the well or water lines, baking bread, making dinner and now caring for chickens is one of our chores!

Many days I work as many as eight to twelve hours on the computer for my business plus making all our food and bath products from scratch takes more time than you'd think. (What else you gonna do if you aren't glued to a TV or handheld screen?!) We don't have a television or cable or even the ability to stream movies via our satellite internet connection, so to unwind we usually have a book to read, a craft project (I love making and sending cards), I enjoy writing (in my notebook as after work, I don't feel like hanging out at my laptop and my office desk!) and sometimes Chris likes to play a video game on his computer.

The kids get home later in the afternoon which of course brings about a new flurry of activity - chores, homework, conversations about the day, squeezing in some play time. It is nice to have Chris here in the afternoons rather than at work at a job some 60 miles away home around 6pm. It's nice to have him right here and he gets to spend more time with his kids than most working dads. In fact, he manages homework with our kindergartner!

Well I better go balance the checkbook, pay a few bills, get to work, bake some bread, pick and shell the peas, get dinner started, make a new batch of bodywash and sunblock and deodorant, feed the chickens, weed my herb garden....But first a fresh hot cup of coffee!!!!

I promise to write again soon!
Be good to yourself and be true to who you are.

All my best,

Ramsey