We Have a Winner!

Thanks to those who stopped by and entered, the winner is...Jana! I hope to be doing more give aways in the future, so if you have a product or craft you would like to donate or swap, please contact me pheonixfae@yahoo.com.  Congratz again, Jana, I will be contacting you soon to mail you your Spencer Lapidary prize pack.

H.W.

Wordless Wednesday

Stormy Sky

Last Chance to Enter...seriously

OOPPSS!!!

Today is the last chance to enter, I had the date wrong...so clicky clicky HERE and enter to win the Spencer Lapidary gift pack!

Last Chance to Enter

Entries end at midnight to win the Spencer Lapidary gift pack.  Please go HERE to leave a comment and enter to win.  If you just started following me, please leave a comment to enter, I will choose a winner by random number generator tomorrow.  Good luck and Blessed Be!

H.W.

Garden Update 4/5/10

We are exhausted around here from working all day in the yard and garden.  We got a ton of work done on the coop, and it's almost done! It primed the front, sides, and inside, and all that it needs now is the door, the chicken wire, tiles down on the coop floor, and a coat of paint.  I even made a swell sign for it...

 I did some weeding, rocked in the altar area for beds and it's ready for some plants (roses maybe) and Jilly and I got some planting done in our square foot boxes.  Jilly was very excited to plant the sunflowers that grew in the peat pots she planted at the Children's Museum water program.

Then we had chicken/duck play time with both our and the neighbors flocks.  The big chickens in the pic are the neighbors chickens from last year.  They are "mutts" from the hardware store and they did not get a single egg from them.  That is why we went in of the Plymouth Barred Rock chicks this year.  There is really starting to be a difference in the hens and roos, and I think now we have 3 of each.  We just have to decide if we want to replace the roosters we will butcher in July with new chicks this year or next.  Square foot wise the coop and run are big enough for 6-8 birds, and I don't think the ducks are going to be staying unless the stop being so cranky to us and the chicks.  They may go when we butcher the roosters.

I told the Hubs today, we may be crawling there, but I feel like we are heading to where we want to go as far as the yard, garden, and general homestead goals.  The coop I am especially proud of, because we have all worked on it as a family, Mojo out there with us in her stroller, and that really means so much to me.  It seems like in the past years when I have been working on the garden, it was just me with some help when I had something specific I needed a hand with, but this year I have everyone on board and pitching in with both physical work and ideas.  Hopefully we will get that last little bit on the coop done this week and get it moved our from the carport into the yard.  We moved the chicks and ducks out into the shed, into bigger crates, and put the heat lamp in there last weekend.  The ducks especially were getting stinky and it is hard to groom dogs who are obsessed with trying to eat the tasty chickens across the room.  More soon, as things develop!

P.S. Time is running out, enter my give away for the Spencer Lapidary prize pack!!!!!!

H.W

Home school Review

First off, Mrs. B over at Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom posted a great list of resources for Pagan parents on her blog.  We use Pagan Moonbeams and just discovered Pooka Pages.  Check out the list, and let me know about other good spots.

Secondly, I had the nicest chat at the hardware store yesterday with a man whose grandkids were all home schooled, and just lit up when we told him we home school Jiji.  His oldest grandson apprenticed and became a farrier...how often do you hear that!  It was so awesome to talk to some one who got so excited that we were taking our kids education in our own hands, and to get such random encouragement.  We have always been lucky in that I have never had a 'bad' reaction from people over home schooling, and have only gotten into one 'argument' about it, that was shut down when I asked the teenage boy how many kids he had to be such an expert... Most people I talk to are mildly surprised, curious, or have really good questions.  I am finding that it is way more common around here than I thought.  Most likely because Indiana's home school requirements are among the most relaxed in the country...pretty much just keep an attendance record and you will most likely never be asked to even show that to anyone!

Thirdly, scroll down or click here and enter to win my give away for a Stone mix and bracelet from Spencer Lapidary!

H.W.

Reiki Thursday

Welcome back to Reiki Thursday!

I have not been posting a list, because I want us all to focus on ourselves for a bit.  You all know those who need healing and prayer, and you may be needing it yourself.  We all need a recharge, a reminder that we are important, valuable, and loved.  For a while now I have been running myself too thin, and have recently been re-focusing myself to spend a little time on myself.  My family deserves for me to be my best, and I deserve just as much time and energy as I give my family, and so do you! I hope you did the meditation last week, if not go check it out, and I hope you take the few minutes to do the one I am posting this week. Once you are relaxed, positive, and grateful that is what you are putting out into the world!

H.W.