More Progress
It’s really amazing to see some of the progress we’ve made on the farm! Some days it seems like it’s taking forever, but when I look at these pictures, it reminds me of where we started and how far we’ve come. I can really see the progress in these pictures and now that some of the […]
Carter Crazy
Once we knocked down all those pesky Virginia pines we had brush piles everywhere. And I do mean EVERYWHERE! Sorry-I tried to give you a little bit of a break before I started talking about trees again! Brush piles everywhere!!! All those brush piles left us with one question that we kept asking each other. […]
The Old Homestead
I don’t know why I call this place The Old Homestead. It just seems to fit for some reason to me. It makes me think of people striking a claim to their land and working long hard hours to make ends meat. Honestly, it just makes me darn proud of them and proud to be trying to carry on […]
Patience and Prayer
The fall of 2016 brought a terrible drought and we couldn’t burn any of the piles we wanted. We had to let them sit there and dry out further until late winter and early spring of 2017, when we were finally able to start burning them. We had hoped that would be the time we would be starting to […]
Naming the Farm
Antler Valley Farm. How did we come up with that name? It wasn’t easy. Everyone had different ideas and the name was going to be permanent so it needed to be something we all liked. No pressure though! So, what’s in a Name? A lot, if you ask me. If you ask Jim, it’s just […]
Progress!!
We were making progress with the clearing! Ok, ok, Saint Jim was making progress with the clearing. The only real problem we had at that point was the terrible drought we were in. We were waiting for some nice rain to come in so we could start burning the brush piles-the HUGE brush piles that were multiplying!! […]
The First Summer at the Creek
The first summer at the creek was almost magical for us. My kids loved playing at the creek all summer. We ALL loved it. LOVED! IT! What’s not to love really? Shade, cool water, sand, mud, snails, salamanders, turtles, snakes, frogs, minnows, crayfish, crawfish or crawdads if your southern, bugs galore-I could go on forever here!! […]
Saint Jim
I think I might have mentioned before that things went a little smoother when I didn’t watch Jim work on the dozer. Well…..I somehow thought… that things would be different when he had the green light to tear down everything in his path (remember all those pesky Virginia pines). I mean, how could I find fault in that?!? Unfortunately, I […]
Under the leaves
So we were making lots of progress with the clearing and grading. Ok, correction, JIM was making lots of progress with the clearing and grading. I was keeping the kids occupied picking up sticks mostly, but we kept finding broken glass. And then there was the ravine filled with glass. Just a little issue to […]
The Tree Saga….Part 3
Ok, looking back I should’ve titled these posts the Tree Trilogies, but who knew I could talk about trees for so long????….. Well, I guess I kinda did……because that seemed to be ALL we talked about for months!! Marking trees, saving trees, hardwood trees, pine trees, broken trees, clearing trees, yada, yada, yada… You get the […]
