We finally got the opportunity to go camping! We've been wanting to for a while, but weren't actually capable of pulling it off...until this weekend. We went to Woodson Lake (I think) out by Toronto. It was a nice lake, and was not nearly as busy as I'm sure El Dorado Lake was. This was M's first time camping and she seemed to have a blast. She really enjoyed fishing with dad (I have cute pics I will share when I can) and swimming. J finally got to see M swimming...He hasn't seen her swim on her own with her floaties, so it was exciting. She was also keeping busy catching bugs...and incidently squishing them...as well as playing with the worms dad fished with. The first night was rough at bed time. I had to go lay down with her in the tent, but she was still too wound up to sleep. She crawled all over me, rolled all over the bed, and continued playing well into the night after J came to bed. And then all through the night, even though she was asleep, she was still rolling all over the place, laying on top of me, then laying on J with her feet on me, then laying on our heads ( all of which J slept through) and she ended up off the bed, on the floor of the tent (poor baby) and slept there the best. The second night she went to sleep on her own and was out entirely, we even moved her around a couple times and she stayed asleep. In any case we had a great weekend with perfect weather. It was a great break.
Our first step towards the 'homestead' lifestyle: CHICKENS. J and I have been researching, reading books & articles, and saving a TON of info to our Pinterest board. I know we are in for some surprises and troubles, but we are doing our best to head them off and avoid other peoples mistakes. (J is still trying to convince me that we need to start pigs this year. I keep reminding him that is one of the PRIMARY mistakes other homesteaders have made: being too eager and getting in too deep, too fast). So, we start our garden and chickens this year - keeping our fingers crossed that we aren't putting them in poor locations. The chickens are the first thing branching out into our additional 2 acres. The coop and kennel are going at the outside, back corner of our fenced in yard. Our coop is valiantly being made from old cabinets we picked up at the local Habitat for Humanity, Re-Store. We intend to paint, add roof, prop up on legs, and insert s...
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We just met yesterday at church. I am Sharea Eccles and Sharon Mills said you love to blog...we have not found many here interested in that so I say yay. I LOVE to blog so if you would like to check us out at www.eccleshomeontheprairie.blogspot.com My husband and I are so excited to get to know you guys better. So if you are interested we would love to have you guys come to dinner. Leave a comment on my blog and we will set something up.