After letting my blog sit idle for almost three years (yikes!), I’m bringing it back! Life has been busy these last few years and it’s been difficult to find time to write, I’ll try to do better this time! 🙂

During these COVID pandemic times I’ve been working on some house projects and gardening. My job has shifted to a work from home environment and the company I work for has done a major reorganization in my department (great time for more changes, guys! lol). Oh yeah, I went back to work last year! I work in Treasury Management for an established mid-sized bank holding company. It keeps me busy and is helping meet some financial goals I’ve set (and making additions to the Homestead). Progress on the Homestead has been slow, my Dad and I have both been busy with other things and the era of social distancing is making everything a little more challenging. We’re hoping to make some progress on it this Fall though!

It’s been a long week and I’ve got a busy day planned so I’ll keep this short, there’s a lot to catch up on but it’s too much for one post! 🙂 Look for more posts soon!

Cheers,

D

Yesterday was a busy day of planting! What’s the point of living in the country if you aren’t going to have lots and lots of fresh fruits and veggies? A few months ago I’d ordered some Patriot Blueberry bushes and grape vines (two Somersets and two Concords) and they FINALLY came this week. They’re small, bare-rooted plants right now but they should take off quickly. I planted the blueberry bushes along the west side of the potting shed, they’ll get good sunlight there. I was planning on putting in a flowerbed along that wall so I’ll add some ornamental plants around the blueberries. Continue reading →

It’s been a rainy weekend in mid-Missouri, boy oh boy has it ever. We have a rain gauge on the farm and we’ve recorded approximately 6 1/2 inches from Friday to this morning. That’s a lot of rain but we’re actually lucky because areas to the south of us had more than 10 inches of rain dumped on them, 10 inches of rain in less than 2 days! We’ve had a very wet few weeks and the ground is already saturated so all of this rain has resulted in major flooding. Seriously guys, it’s legitimately historic flooding (which actually seems to happen every year or two but the numbers don’t lie!).  Continue reading →