Canning season updated Pics

I know it has been far too long since I've updated everyone.
Life has been very busy. Our oldest son graduated high school and is away at College. He loves it which I'm thankful for.
Right now I am in GA visiting my parents while hubbs is in Cooperstown, NY umpiring for the week. There is nothing like being with family.
My garden did not do as well as I had hoped BUT I did get to can some pints of beans, home made spaghetti sauce as well as blackberry jam. Pics down below. ( I found an electric pressure canner real cheap at ocean state job lot)
We have 1 HUGE pumpkin growing.
In September we will be getting our chicken coop for the chickens snd ducks.  That will be 1 lead thing to worry about come cold weather.
Here are some new pics, hopefully with all the kids going to school I can focus on my blog more again!

Homestead pics

This cute little squirrel ate everything in the wooden feeder out front and has moved onto one of the feeders out back. At this rate his friends will be rolling him around.😜

A few days in a row we had Turkey out back. I have not seen them since we snapped the pics. This is the first year we have ever had wild turkeys.

This weekend hubby planted our 3 dwarf fruit trees and my Pussy willows. We will put mulch around them this coming weekend.

This past week we haf quite a wind storm.  Our pool ended up in a big pile of twisted metal. Our trampoline had the same thing happen to it.
We were able to get the yard all clean this weekend. Next weekend my garden will be tilled!! I just need to figure where our herb garden is going.
Have a great week!

Homestead Update

Been since St. Patrick's Day  that I have updated. We have been busy with just everyday life.
The chics and ducks are growing so quickly.  The ducks reputation for being very messy is completely true and they can shoot poop almost across the room if they are back to the cage. We are constantly rinsing their water container as it almost looks muddy. Today we went and got a 50 lb. Bag of food for them as they were going through a small bag in less than a week!!
My 2 bleeding heart plants came in the mail today and I planted those. I also got 3 bulbs from Holland that have to be soaked in water for 2-4 hours to promote growth then I will plant those.  If the snow ever stops being forecast we will plant our trees.

Here are my beautiful crocus

💙💙💙World Autism Day💙💙💙

Today we celebrated world Autism Day.
For the month of April we will leave this up.

I had 4 kiddos home and we all wore blue today.

Autism touches my life every day. I'm very blessed on this journey among the struggles.  I also have a nephews with Autism. 💙💙💙💙
My ducks had a fabulous swim yesterday in our tub. I laughed because our tub was disgusting.

Here is a couple of pics after the ducks were done.

Needless to say the tub had a great scrubbing afterwards. I was hoping to snap a picture today but I didn't have my phone on me. The chics like to lay on top of the ducks and sleep now. It is the cutest thing to see.

This week in Pictures

We will end up having a dozen eggs this week. Both girls have started laying 2 eggs a day.

My herbs are doing pretty well. I am so happy seeing them grow.

Our babies are growing so fast. I can't believe how big the ducks bills and feet are getting. They are so cute!! I have 2 ducklings that run over as soon as they hear my voice and some of the chics come.

Tomorrow we may be getting a guinea pig. Her name is Pandora. One of my cousin's is giving her to us.

We still haven't planted the trees yet but hopefully this weekend we will. Although the weather is forecasting significant snow this weekend. 😢😢😢
We have been battling the intestinal bug here. 4 kids have had it 2 more to go. I'm praying it skips over me.
Have a good evening everyone ♡♡

Busy Sunday

What a good weekend it has been. Friday and Saturday 6 of the kids and I visited my grandparents. Friday night I cooked supper for everyone and Saturday Grammie showed me how she starts her veggies and gave me some nice pointers on how to grow my vegetable garden this year. We planted 100 onion seeds as the ones I ordered take longer than hers. We will start tomatoes and peppers in a couple of weeks. Down here I plan on starting my broccoli and cauliflower.
Some of my fruit trees came saturday.

They are hiding in this package until my husband is able to plant them.
Saturday morning I had the honor of meeting Lisa @fresheggsdaily. It was nice chatting with her In person and getting some encouragement on our ducks and chicks.
Here are the 2 of us:

Today we have been busy around the homestead picking up trash that has accumulated through the winter. (2 full trash cans full)
We cleaned the chicken coop and added that to the compost pile. I will clean the babies cage tomorrow.
Also another son and I cut up the netting to our trampoline and placed it over the garden. Hopefully it will kill all the weeds.

The younest 2 boys and I managed to pick up all the clothespins that had fallen during the winter. We threw away the broken ones. We just needs some new clothesline rope to fix the clotheline. The rope we bought last year did not survive.
All 5 bird feeders are filled. Now we will need to replenish the bird seed.
I saw our first robins this afternoon. In the back yard. Our trees are getting buds on them. I am definitely happy to see signs of spring all around us.
I have 2 happy boys playing in the dirt with their trucks because it is so warm out.
Enjoy the rest