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Top 10 Games – Part 3
We found Zooloretto while looking on the web for the best family games. My boys really love animals and this game is right up their alley. It’s another game that we play regularly and is our No. 2 game. … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Tagged country life, country living, family, family fun, games, homestead, homesteading, strategic thinking, strategy games, top 10 games, zooloretto
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Top 10 Family Games – Part 1
Winter is a good time to recharge and prepare for the coming outdoor projects and growing season. It is also a great time to enjoy the family indoors and spend time together playing games. We love to play games as … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Tagged blokus, boggle, country life, country living, country skills, family, family fun, games, life on the farm, phase 10, qwirkle, rummikub, scrabble, sequence, ticket to ride, top 10 games, zooloretto
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New Year, New Possibilities
With the New Year upon us, many of us think about new possibilities and goals for improving our homestead and making things better. Especially as the new seed catalogs start coming in, I personally like to think about new things … Continue reading
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Tagged biointensive, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, garden, gardening, goals, grow biointensive, homestead, homesteading, John Jeavons, land, mini-farm, new year, resolutions, tillage radish
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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Buckeyes
This holiday season my friends and I had a baking day at my house to bake Christmas goodies for our choir directors. One of my good friends showed me how to make delicious Buckeyes. They are so extremely easy and fun to make that … Continue reading
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Tagged buckeyes, butter, candy, chocolate chips, country, country living, dessert, family, family fun, holiday candy, homemade candy, peanut butter, recipe
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Merry Christmas from the Braley’s!
Merry Christmas to all our friends both old and new. Our family has been knocked down by the flu these last several days. Yet, we are still very grateful for our many blessings including a warm country home and the … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, family, homestead, homesteading
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