Pastoral Symphony Farm

Today marks the official beginning of Spring for our family, a day that has been eagerly awaited and much anticipated throughout the chill ...

A few times a year I get the "book of stuff" out and update it; that's a pretty mundane name for something that I value highly...

Here it is a Saturday afternoon in February and we are poring over s eed catalogs dreaming of Spring! We want to expand our green bean vari...

Today is my Mother's birthday; she was born on Saturday February 7, 1931. Since I've already written some things about her childho...

I've been thinking about doing a self sufficiency post ever since Zebu and Brooke asked for it but I kind of got hung up on what a mis...

This past Monday, January 19th, my Dad celebrated his 84th birthday. He has spent his whole life in the same county he was born in, Chautau...

Here in Ohio we don't get a lot of snow, most of the winter you can still see the grass. However, a week and a half ago we got a record ...

Elisabethe had her 5th birthday on Sunday, the 21st and that finishes out our birthdays for the year! I decided -remembered?- that she neede...

I have blogged at various times about our oldest son, Aleks, but I've rarely put up pictures of him. He tends to be un-photogenic, like ...

This is Katie's "transition dress" which she wore to Christmas in ---, it is called a transition dress because she's beg...

It has been quite a while since I wrote anything here due to the press of getting everything ready for the Christmas in Zoar event. Zoar ...

Yesterday and today we had our first snowfall of the year. We don't get much accumulation here but we make the most of what we do get! ...

I have *finally* got all the CdV's uploaded to the other site. I did the last 40 yesterday and today and I'm so glad to have that d...

On the sewing front, I completed Abigail's quilted petticoat today. It is brick red on the outside and mustard on the inside. I machine ...