Got a new book off Ebay over the last day or two and boy, it’s a whopper. It’s Storey’s Basic Country Skills book. It’s HUGE and it is so detailed and good and just a page turner if you’re into all this self reliance and homesteading craft and livestock information and all that. Shesh… it kept me up last night reading about hog slaughtering. I really don’t think I can EVER say that happened before, but it’s that good.

The last couple weeks have been crazy, with a lot of music this month, and the new puppy and all, and for whatever reason, a lot of clients have been feeling the fresh new spring rebirth and need edits on their sites and graphics done. I’ve been super busy and just haven’t had as much time to just tinker about the Moby and do some fun stuff. My garden is only about half where I want it to be.

But thankfully, the holiday weekend is here. My in-box is empty and cleaned up. I worked super hard all week to take care of the clients and it’s all done. Just finished a MAJOR MAJOR new product design/creation and website implimation and it’s all done. (www.HotMandolinLicks.com if you’re wondering…) The puppy is behaving and settling in to a routine. Even Gypsy is feeling a bit better and her skin is slowly improving. It’s Miller time.

Okay, well, I’m not a big beer fan, so I think it’s better to say, it’s HOMESTEADING time!!! YAH! We’ve got a bunch of fun planned for the next couple days. We’re going to experiment with making sausage… and we’ve got some sewing we want to do… and we have some organizing and such to do. I want to have our Goodwill bucket filled and ready to go out and do good. (And give us a little more room!) Maggie’s last day of K-12 is today we we’re so happy! We’ll be packing up some of that stuff too and getting a little more elbow room for everyone!

And you can bet… this book is going to be out on the table and having some fun with us!!! I’ll try and take pictures and post about our fun filled holiday homesteading at the Moby weekend for you!