Garden All tilled

I'm so thankful.for my brother in law tilling my garden for me. The boys spread compost on it today before he came!!

Failure

Sometimes you feel like a complete failure. Events happen homesteading that make you question am I cut out for this lifestyle I love so much?

Your heart shatters into a million pieces when you just cant fix them. 

Monday we got 2 bottle doelings. Last night Hope died and today Princess is dying. They both will be buried down back near Lambi.

Too many losses this year.💔💔

Happy Mother's Day

Today we have been planting flowers that were given to me by my husbands aunt and also elderberry  bushes I picked up from Knock Knock Farm here in Maine. (Was my mother's day gift from the boys.)

Our garden will be tilled again this week and I need to put plastic over the metal frame. 

I saw on Craigslist a free shelterlogic shed. It was missing one leg and that's it. I'm not saving the top part as it is ripped and wouldn't make a good greenhouse. (Warmth wise it would just no sunlight)

I forgot to snap a photo of our window boxes filled with flowers.

We are heading out to the other house in Orono to finish fixing the windows. Then I'm not sure what else we will be doing. 

I made sure to text and call my mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day.

My oldest son called me this morning which was nice.

I also need to wish my future daughter In law a Happy 23rd birthday today!!

Homestead Happenings

5 of Tiny Tina's chicks hatched but we lost all but 1 due to them trying to follow their mom to get water and fell.

We added 4 Easter Eggers to the farm so we now have 10 chicks inside

This weekend we finally started putting up fencing for the animals. We just need to finish putting cedar slabs around it.

We need to also tack the fencing to the inside of the cedar boards and they will be able to come outside and enjoy the fencing. We were able to get the posts and fencing from our other house as well but we aren't completely sure what we will be doing with that. 

We lost the cute little bantam. She got out of the barn.

I bought some Rhubarb plants from a woman in Old Town last week. She blessed me with Comfrey, strawberries, walking onions and several other plants. Today I got 20 raspberry plants and 2 bleeding heart plants.  We planted 7 Rhubarb plants today. Depending on the weather tomorrow we will plant all 20 Raspberries and 2 blackberries as well as my 2 blueberry bushes. 

Oakley had fun with us outside. The blackflies are so thick where part of our backyard is still wet.

I have decided to have my garden down by the barn where I can accessu water easily. We are hoping to start tilling that Sunday.

Friday my son that is in college will be home for the summer. He will be umpiring a lot of baseball for his summer job.

Later this week. Dennis aunt is thinning out her flower beds and giving me all of her overflow. I still need to finish digging up the flowers that are coming up on the front lawn. I want to move them towards the front of the lawn where we have boulders. 

Time for me to water my seedlings. Have a great evening!!