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Waiting On Spring

2/6/2020

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Fall used to be my favorite season.  Nice, crisp weather (read—not the scorching Alabama summer); Thanksgiving; Beautiful Trees; Campfires; I could go on…..

But I’ve changed my mind about that….I love Spring.  Spring allows for renewal and retries—which I am always in need of these days…It allows for time outside and sunshine and short sleeves and work.  

Work.

I have really missed working on projects this winter.  I have felt sort of blah about things lately, and I finally realized it was because I was ready to be busy.  In the last few years, we have gotten in a groove around here of finding projects to work on and knocking them out.  We work on them together, as a family.  We finish them, as a family.  We move on to the other projects on the list, and each member of the family has projects that they want to get done.  We work on them all together.  Together is my favorite part.

We finally got Winnie’s stanchion built this week, and it felt so good to get it checked off!  (I think she was secretly waiting on us to get her stanchion built before she has that calf of hers….).  But it reminded me how great it was to work on a project and get it done.  

I am excited about the projects we have on the docket for the next few months…Finishing the Cowboy’s Shop, Getting the garden up and going, Building a rabbit hutch, A desk for the girls’ bedroom, Restoring the vintage kitchen table……I'm sure there will be more......

But, mostly, I’m excited about the together part of all those projects.......and the sweet memories that we build while working......together.

Until next time,
Lori



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    About Me

    HELLO & WELCOME!!  
    My name is Lori.  I am  wife to a handsome tractor driver, momma to three sweet & fast growing  girls, farmer in training, and, most important of all, a child of the King.  
    I am learning to be more self reliant.  Not in a "I don't need anybody else" kind of way, but in a "I want to learn how to make it, grow it and raise it myself" kind of way.  I want to learn to live and love the kind of life that my grandparents lived.  A simpler, home-based life.  
    We live on a 14 acre piece of land in central Alabama.  Our homestead really began as a forrest, and in 2017, we  began the slow and difficult process of making it a small hobby farm.  We have completed construction on our dream home, barn and pasture.  
    My goal for our homestead is to provide a lot of our own food--by building and working a garden as well as raising and caring for large and small livestock.  I hope to do things as naturally as possible by learning tried and true lessons of homesteading practices of the past as well as learning about the latest natural farming practices.  I hope to have excess products that I, and my apprentices (read "afore mentioned fast growing girls who need to learn lessons in economics and hard work") can sell at a road side stand or  at the local Farmers Market.
    Thanks for visiting stoneybrookefarms.com!  I hope you are blessed by being here!
    Much Love!
    ​Lori

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