5 am Saturday morning - We start by fixing a good breakfast of scrambled eggs, oatmeal with strawberries, and homemade gluten free toast with spun honey. I have a cup of coffee with honey and Danny has water. Then it is off to pick blueberries. 11 gallons later, we have to make a couple of stops in town and back home by 11. We take care of our animals which takes about 20 minutes. We usually feed about 6, but berries had to be picked before it got too hot. We fix lunch which is usually leftovers. Today it was spaghetti with garlic bread.
After lunch, I bake gluten free apple, pecan muffins. We have a visitor who spent a couple of hours with us. We always take time to visit. We love it when we have company.
We check our emails, YT channel, FB accounts and answer comments for about an hour or so. Then it is time for supper. Baked chicken, roasted potatoes, green beans and cornbread were on the menu.
After supper, we go back outside. First we take care of our animals, making sure each has food and water and collect the eggs. Then it is off to pick strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and cucumbers.
Once more in the house, I put all the berries in bags and freeze them. I wash all the eggs and put them in the refrigerator. I wash dishes with Danny drying and putting away. I put a roast in the crock pot for Sunday dinner.
Finally, our quiet time. For a couple of hours we chill. Then bed.
5 am Sunday morning: Breakfast, feed animals, and pick corn.
We shuck, silk, wash, blanch and cut off 8 pints of cream style corn. We also have 3 gallons of corn on the cob.
I clean the kitchen up and change for church. (I have 15 minutes before we leave!) At least I washed the corn off my face and hands!
We have a great fellowship with our fellow church friends and are back home around 1 pm. Lunch is roast, potatoes and carrots.
We spend the afternoon resting and checking social media. Someone is sleeping! Late in the afternoon when the sun goes down, we are back out seeing to the animals.
We also pick all the green beans that have dried on the bush. These will be seed for next year.
We pick berries and collect squash and cucumbers.
Back in the house, we have supper, which is leftover roast. We wash dishes. I clean eggs and put up berries.
Danny and I work on editing videos that will come out on Monday.
Now our quiet time. Life this weekend on Deep South Homestead. This is why I don't blog very often. Just a little about how we spend our time.
Hi Danny and Wanda!
ReplyDeleteI just love ya'll! Ya'll are so real and honest! I have been blessed through ya'll's channel! I understand after reading this post why you don't have time to blog. I just hope you see this comment! I have a blog too, and only write a post about
once a month. I'm nowhere near as busy as ya'll! I have been searching seed catalogs and online sources for Vardamon sweet potatoes. The online sources don't ship to Alabama. I noticed ya'll got some from Alderman farms. I wonder if there's a place in Mississippi that will ship here. I followed Danny's steps on planting sweet potatoes harvested this past fall, to grow slips. I just would like to grow some Vardamon's. If you have time, could you direct me to someone who would ship them to Alabama? Thanks for all ya'll do and sharing with us the good, and not so good! I pray that God will bless ya'll abundantly this year in your garden and homestead! Blessings from Bama!