Farm Mom Blog

 August always goes by super fast for our family.   We celebrated 3 birthdays in August (Mine, Clay's, and Alice's). We had a good time celebrating all three! Alice had a purple and horse theme party, she's been obsessed with purple lately haha!  We also had a great trip to Gatlinburg TN. We saw a bear at Cades Cove, played in the mountain streams, and ate some good food! Paula Deen's in Pigeon Forge and Mamas Chicken Kitchen were our favorites. We stayed at the cutest and cleanest motel in downtown Gatlinburg called Marshalls Creek, I highly recommend! Very reasonable prices and easy to walk to downtown Gatlinburg.  Back home, the garden has now been taken over by weeds :( but the produce is starting to dwindle anyways so I guess it's not too big of a deal. I finished with 41 quarts of canned green beans, 19 quarts of canned tomatoes, 5 quarts of canned pickles, lots of frozen green peppers and even more coming on, and the okra is coming on strong as well, whic...

                               July 2023 recap for our farm family July was a typical month for us meaning nothing overly exciting. Life around here is pretty chill during the Summer months. The kids enjoy playing outside and on the hot days, downstairs in the cool basement.  We had a fun time at our County Fair! The kids aren't in 4-H this year but we did enter some items into the open class building. The two older kids took pictures in and they both one 1st place ribbons! I enjoy trying out for a lot of the baking contests. I entered the cookie baking contest and the yeast bread contest. It's so fun to go in later to see if you have won any prizes! I also entered a few other open class projects. It's more for enjoyment than the actual competition. I would encourage anyone who enjoys the fair and a friendly competition to enter a few of the contests or open class projects! Get outside your comfort zone...