by Tammy Taylor
I’ve only been blogging regularly since the first of the year but I’ve enjoyed making new friends here – y’all have been awesome! Now that we’re approaching the end of the year I thought it would be fun to list the top ten most popular posts of our little ole Blog. These are the posts that are the highest searched and the highest read by you, my much-valued followers. So without further adieu, I offer you:
by Texas Homesteader ~
Many have asked how we got started in this Homesteading life. Were we born into it? Did we work our way to it later in life? Just how did we get to this Texas Homestead? And why?
Read on, dear friends.
by Texas Homesteader ~
As I’m out feeding the animals I’m blessed with the beauty of a full moon rising at dusk.
~TxH~
by Texas Homesteader ~
The ice is damaging, but can be beautiful as well…
~TxH~
by Texas Homesteader ~
Recently North Texas was hit with a powerful icy winter storm. Our area was hit especially hard. The ice built up so heavily on every outside surface that many large tree limbs were sent crashing under their icy weight. Even entire large trees were laid over, massive root ball and all. And any trees that were left standing are severely damaged.
The devastation was pretty harsh but thankfully it was also relatively localized. The town just 8 miles from us had little to no ice on the road 24 hours later. Although there was some ice on the trees in this nearby town & I’m sure some light power outages as well, they were back to business as usual pretty quickly.
by Texas Homesteader
The weathermen predicted there would be a winter storm hit our part of Northeast Texas, and they even predicted it would include hazardous ice accumulations in our area. But you know how weathermen are, they ALWAYS predict it’s going to be disastrous.
My motto is: hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
RancherMan & I spent the days preceding this winter storm making sure the animals were properly cared for.
We set out fresh rolls of hay in all of the paddocks, even the vacant ones in the event they would be needed.
And we made sure the goats also had plenty of fresh hay & even packed soft hay into their shelter as well to give them a warm place to sleep.
We filled a secondary large feed bucket with fresh hay & stored it in the feed shed so we could easily top off the goats’ hay if the wintry weather lasted longer than expected.
by Texas Homesteader
Barbed Wire Hangs On The Post Of An 1880’s Barn
~TxH~
by Texas Homesteader ~
(yawwwwwn…) Being born is HARD WORK!
~TxH~