• The Homestead Weekly

    The Homestead Weekly, 24 May 2020

    May 25, 2020 - By 

    After several weeks that felt like we were speeding right into summer, this week was a cold, drizzly one where we had not just one or two, but THREE frost warnings. We got lucky in that everything seems to have survived the chilly nights, and I just reveled in the chance to make soup again and in the desire to turn on my oven, which meant that we ate particularly well this week. This was also the week of getting haircuts, as both Matt and I were in desperate need and as we now were able to, with salons recently…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 17 May 2020

    May 18, 2020 - By 

    Whew, what a doozy of a week! If you read my last post, you’ll know that we had a loooong day on Friday that involved driving three hours’ south of here to where the company my husband works for is moving so that we could look at houses. It was a long day that ended in disappointment, but at least it gave us some concrete experience to draw from when it comes to deciding whether we’re going to move with the business or not. Here’s what we were up to the rest of the week, though: In the Kitchen I…

  • Homestead Offer #1
    The Homestead Dream

    Homestead Search // Offer #1

    May 16, 2020 - By 

    When I started this blog allllll the way back in March (so, a whopping two months ago), I didn’t dream that we’d actually be searching for any homestead this year other than the one we’re living on right now in the suburbs. Well, as we’ve all learned over the past two months, apparently a LOT can change in that short amount of time. As I detailed in another post, the company my husband works for is moving three hours’ south of here. While we haven’t fully committed to moving down with them, we’re definitely looking into it as land is…

  • Our Garden Failures and What We Learned From Them
    Failures + Lessons Learned - Gardening

    Garden Failures + What We’ve Learned // Vol. I

    May 13, 2020 - By 

    When I was 12 or so (and until I was 16 or 17), I wanted to be a landscape designer–I took out a subscription to Birds and Blooms magazine, I joined the National Gardening Association, and I asked for (and received!) thick gardening reference books for birthdays and for Christmas. I was responsible for our family’s vegetable garden one year (at my request), and I also tried my hand at sowing some flower seeds (cosmos–which thrived–and bachelor buttons, which are literally still coming up every year even now, almost two decades later). In my limited experience during those few years…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 10 May 2020

    May 11, 2020 - By 

    When planning when we would get married, Matt and I didn’t really think about anything other than getting married as soon as we could swing it, which meant getting married the Saturday after taking our college finals for the semester. What we didn’t realize was that having May 7th as our anniversary would mean that our anniversary, my mother-in-law’s birthday (on the 6th), and Mother’s Day would always fall right next to each other. It basically guarantees a really busy week every year, but it also guarantees a really exciting one! Here’s how that week looked this year. Note: There…

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    The Homestead Weekly, 3 May 2020

    May 3, 2020 - By 

    Well, we made it to May. April *kind* of feels like it both didn’t exist and like it existed TOO MUCH, if you know what I mean. (I’m sure you do.) Here in Northern Utah, the statewide pandemic restrictions lifted this week so that many businesses saw a “soft opening” on the 1st, like dine-in options, gyms, etc. (all with precautions, of course), and now the group gathering has been extended to include up to 20 people, rather than the 10 it was before. In our particular county, the numbers have looked especially good over the past week and a…