I have a confession. I use tiktok. I know, I know. I thought it was just silly trend videos for 13 year olds, too, but it turns out there are adults on tiktok as well. And some of those adults share food videos. Annnd some of those food videos go “viral.” That’s where the inspiration…
My grandmother, Granny, passed away yesterday, February 10th, 2021. Today, the 11th, the world is frozen over here in west Tennessee, which seems fitting, and is a nice reminder to slow down a little bit and reflect. There is so much, and yet so little, to say about this loss. Little because it’s impossible to…
I am a big believer that small improvements matter. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by big, usually unachievable goals. The big picture is always intimidating, and sometimes unrealistic. I have accepted, for example, that I will never have a truly zero waste existence. Zero waste is a great thing to aspire to, but it isn’t…
Well, where to start? It’s been a while– too long. How ya doing? Has this crazy year made you stress eat all the carbs like it has me? I want to give a life update, and, more than that, I want to return to the creativity I found for myself here on this blog. I…
Take a breath. I know everyone and everything feels topsy-turvy right now, and it’s okay to feel what you’re feeling. It’s okay to be concerned, to be stressed, to be fearless, to be disappointed. There are a million different ways to feel in this situation, and none of them are right or wrong. What you…
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Oh, hello there. Long time so see, eh? I don’t really know how to begin this post. I tackled a similar topic with a prior blog post in early December, which hinted at what I’m going to be divulging here,…
I want to preference this by saying that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with gift-giving. In fact, gift giving is one of my top two love languages, along with acts of service! I love to give and receive gifts, and I think skipping gifts altogether by choice is a bit Scrooge-y. But one thing…
I’ve had the idea for this blog post floating around in my head for a few days, but I’m not sure what to say or how to start it. I suppose I will just start from the beginning — kind of — and be as honest as I can be when I don’t know my…
I rarely talk about anything that I struggle with here on the internet. I like to share a lot of things with y’all, but I’m also a private person, and struggle of any kind feels very personal to me. I don’t even talk about it much with my friends or family. But. . .what is…
I’ve shared a cobbler recipe before, and I even dubbed it “the best.” Well, I’m here to contradict myself a little. Don’t get me wrong, that prior cobbler recipe is still a winner. However, there are many ways to cobbler. You can cake-cobbler, like the previous recipe I shared, or pie crust-cobbler, or biscuit-cobbler. It…
Am I the only one who sometimes falls down the rabbit hole of those silly personality quizzes and games that get passed around social media? “What is your spirit animal?” “Which Image You See First Says This About Your Personality.” “What dog breed are you?” “What Your Favorite Pizza Says About You.” They’re fun little…
Y’all, I love ducks. They’re the funniest poultry species. They’re also wonderful homestead animals. Duck meat is delicious, their fat can be rendered for cooking oil, and they lay eggs, too. Some people also use ducks to devour pests in their gardens. But my luck with ducks has been pretty sub-par. My first ducks flew…
One of the most important things to master when it comes to breeding dairy goats is learning to evaluate bucks. Most of the time we focus on the does — they are the ones who produce the milk, after all. We interact with does more than bucks, for the most part. They are the ones we…