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What happens when homestead living meets modern technology? Among
other things, a lot of fun when homesteaders meet on HomesteadBlogger.com
to share ideas, tips, experiences, and conversation! Here’s a typical entry that
we thought you’d enjoy. We asked the writer, Crystal Miller, if we could share
it with you, and she agreed. (Then we asked if she’d write an article for us, and
she agreed to that too! See the article here.) You can see more
of Crystal’s blog at www.HomesteadBlogger.com/quiverfull/.
Busy Days
My days lately have been busy, busy. There is always so much to be done
here in the home and on the homestead. Yesterday I thought I would write
down what I did so it is kind of my journal of sorts … a homemaker’s daily
journal! And today I am up early again and making my lists and ready to tackle
another day.
Morning
• Up at 5 AM
• Bible time
• Computer: answer emails, check in on message board
• Kitchen: cut up some fat and start rendering it (pig fat I had in the freezer
from some pigs we raised)
• Animal chores: milk goats (kids fed the rest of the goats and chickens)
• Back up to the house: strain milk, check on lard, most of the kids made
their own breakfast (scrambled eggs and toast) while I sent out some
orders from my Country Store
• Kitchen cleanup—the kids had done most of this; I just handle the little
details.
• Made a goat milk strawberry smoothie and toasted homemade sourdough
bread for my breakfast
• Shower
• Clean my room
• Start a load of laundry
• Check on lard; add the remaining fat that did not fit in the pan before it
had melted down enough
• Sierra and Jacob worked independently
on their math; Isaac is done
with school and has helped me
with a few chores in the house.
• Updated my website and added
some soap to my store
Noon
• Move laundry to the dryer, start
another load
• Swept dining room floor
• Swept and mopped kitchen floor
(made floor cleaner)
• Kids made peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches on their own
• Set out tea and cups in preparation
for ladies coming to Bible Study today at my house
• Bible Study (lasted 2½ to 3 hours)
Evening
• Finish helping the girls clean out
the barn and make room for the
200 T-posts that Tobin brought
home after work
• With the help of a couple of my
children I repaired a hole in my
greenhouse, which is currently
housing goats (who made the
hole!).
• Came back to the house and
helped Emily finish putting together
tacos for our dinner
• Hannah came home and shared
about her day (she did her volunteer
time at the vet’s office and
then had a house cleaning job in
the afternoon), so I visited with
her.
• Sat down at the computer to check
my emails and drop in on my message
board again (and just take a
break!)
• Moved some laundry through
• Strained the lard that had been
rendering all day
• Had dinner
• Hubby came home (he was late
due to picking up fencing materials)
and we visited for a while
• Put away a folded load of laundry
• Helped my girls clean up the
kitchen
• Got the youngest kids to bed
• Packed up things for Tobin’s lunch
for Tuesday
• Took the soap I made on Saturday
out of the molds
• Went to bed!
Copyright 2006. The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Fall 2006, pages 92-100.
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