By Texas Homesteader ~
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Tomatoes are the darling of the vegetable garden around these parts. Some like to plant squash, some like peppers. But by golly almost everyone has a tomato bush (or two, or three…) in their garden!
None of my tomatoes will go to waste. Even when they’re producing too fast for me to eat fresh. I like to dice & dehydrate those fresh tomatoes to use in my wintertime soups. It’s easy!
by Texas Homesteader~
There’s work to be done, good thing I LOVE my job!
~TxH~
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This year I planted heirloom sugar pumpkins in my garden. And when it was time to harvest them I knew I’d first be able to enjoy them for a bit as decoration. I love the way those little pumpkins looked propped on our antique cast-iron Franklin stove.
But several days later I was in the kitchen enjoying the last of my favorite pumpkin granola. I knew that since I planted those delicious pumpkins for use in my granola it was time to cook those babies down into pumpkin puree.
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RancherMan & I got the opportunity to spend a week with family renting a lovely beach house at Surfside Beach near Galveston, Texas. The plan was to meet up with my baby sister & her family as well as my big brother & his wife and we’d all gather for the week in this one large rented home large enough for all of us.
BUT my brother & his wife couldn’t make it after all. So there were just the five of us rattling around that big lovely 2-story 4-bedroom 3-bath house.
by Texas Homesteader
When RancherMan & I built our home here on the homestead, I was pretty adamant that I wanted an underground storm shelter. I mean, I was born in & spent much of my childhood in Central Oklahoma.
Although I loved it there I considered it tornado ally. I remember many stormy tornado-warning nights that my parents would awake me and my siblings and place us in the hallway for safety from the potential hazards should a tornado come too close.
And it’s funny how those emotions carry with you into adulthood. Even today although I absolutely love the rolling thunder and am awestruck by thick dark clouds. But when the wind kicks up I nervously pace. And if it kicks up a lot I’m almost inconsolable.
Thankfully RancherMan can soothe me most times. But when you hear your tiny city mentioned on that radio followed by the words “Take Cover IMMEDIATELY”… Well, I needed more than soothing – I needed SAFETY from the storm!
by Texas Homesteader
There are a few critters that get my instant skin-crawling attention, especially when they’re inside the house – scorpions are way up at the top of the list! This has got to be the smallest scorpion I’ve ever seen in my life.
~TxH~
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While strolling through the pastures RancherMan & I discovered a new form of life – a hybrid hippo & bovine – COWopotamus!
~TxH~
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Working with barbed wire (and pasture plants with thorns) means blood stains are a common laundry stain problem here on the Homestead. Maybe you struggle with it too?
Come see how I’m able to remove blood stains from RancherMan’s shirts.
