Archive for November, 2006

The Boy’s First Beaver

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

We recently gained access to a beaver pond for trapping. Yesterday the boys and I went down to check it out. Beavers are such amazing creatures, we had a ball looking around. I showed the boys the dam and the house and all the little canals they make to haul in food […]

Manure Pile Squash In Your Garden

Monday, November 27th, 2006

A while back, when we were fencing off the 50 acre lot for some end of the season grazing, we stumbled on a huge cache of squash. Sometimes in the winter months, when the snows “rump deep to a tall Indian”, we have to make manure piles instead of spreading them on the fields. […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Wishing all you folks a Happy Thanksgiving. Let us thank and praise the Lord for all of his blessings and provisions. May we all eat, drink and make merry in the presence of our great and mighty King, for there is nothing better under the sun.

Traps Washed Out

Friday, November 17th, 2006

This has been one wet year, lots of mud and some major floods. We don’t worry to much about floods, being way up in the hill country, but we have many area saints that live in the lowlands and river valleys. Yesterday we had some heavy rain and we are already 10 inches […]

ChristianAgrarian.com

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

I just wanted to take a little time to tell everyone about the Sponsor of Homesteader Life. We are firm beilevers that when given the choice we should always do business with other Christians and not with pagans. When we have the chance to business with Christians who also share our vision of […]

The Way Things Are

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

We American Christians find ourselves living under strange conditions. A country settled by Christians, yet so lacking in any visible proof. Our ansestors and and ourselves have committed a sickening crime. We have watered down the Gospel that transforms the world into the “gospel transformed by the world”. It seems that […]

Black Spanish Turkey

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

We have recently become owners of a breeding pair of Black Turkeys. Our freind Larry, who hits a lot of “breeder sales”, came by with them the other day and wondered if we wanted them. The price was right and now we can work toward having a sustainable turkey flock. This is […]