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The other day I sat down and shelled 2 cups of pecans. These pecans are local to me in Southeastern Oklahoma, if you remember I talked about buying these in my recent post about our first Fall in Oklahoma. I bought these pecans off of a woman on Facebook Marketplace. She wanted to meet me [...]
I was in my local Quality Consignment Shop, Treasure Trunk, here in McAlester, Oklahoma this week and I found the most wonderful thing. I found an old crock with it's matching lid. It is written on the bottom to be rare and to have been made by Eagle Pottery which originates in Benton, Arkansas. This [...]
I have been seeing a lot of chatter on Instagram about this topic. People are really planting their flags on whether they are decorating before or after Thanksgiving this year. Like I have said before, I have decorated before Thanksgiving for the last five years. And then I said nope. Im not doing it this [...]
The weekend after we let our chicks out of the coop for the first time we were forecasted to have about 3 days of lows at night ranging between 19 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Our mature chickens had been sleeping in an outside chicken coop day and night. The coop was closed in on 2 [...]
On November 9th we let our Rare Breed Chicks from Meyer Hatchery explore outside of their coop for the first time. The birds were exactly 2 months old and they seemed totally ready for their Maiden Voyage. They have been inside their coop with complete ventilation and room for a heat lamp almost their [...]
We are rounding out our first complete Fall in Oklahoma and what a beautiful Fall it has been this year. There are so many understated things in Oklahoma, Fall is one of them. Before we get any further let me give you some helpful background information on my experience with Fall. I grew up in [...]
I find it really hard sometimes to find the most simple and straightforward things on the internet. For example, I wanted to make a very simple knit hat for my 2 and half year old and most of the patterns I found had all the bells and whistles and I do not enjoy knitting enough [...]
