Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! It’s Blog Hop day again! For some reason my site had a glitch. I pasted the blog hop at the correct time, but made a misspelling, and gave the hop the wrong number. Well…that just seemed to mess everything up in terms of my permalinks. So I’m deleting the…
Read moreHomestead Blog Hop 345–Bloom Where You’re Planted
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! This week on our homestead, we’ve been feeling grateful at the little surprises out in nature. One of those is the random Crazy Daisy flower that popped up this year! One year I threw a bunch of random seeds down our hillside, expecting waves of floral color! It didn’t…
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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Happy Wednesday! Wowzers! We got a ton of rain! ☔️ The dumping, soaked to the skin type of rain storm! Our gardens will be happy, and our homestead holding tanks will fill right up! I counting my blessings for this rain. I would have preferred to be planting more…
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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Happy week to you! It’s been a busy week, as usual! We’ve done some work in our garden, made some raised beds, had an emergency room visit, tore up our van while trekking they the backwoods Tennessee jungle, and picked some flowers! I’m excited to see new things growing…
Read moreCicadas! Homestead Blog Hop 342
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! This week at Ridge Haven Homestead and around our area, we’ve been stormed with the deafening song of the 17-year cicadas! Our property actually doesn’t have as many as our friends in town have, but they’re out there! I’m amazed to see the phenomenon of an animal that can…
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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Good morning and happy day to you! Currently, every time we drive to our driveway, we are blessed to be greeted with lovely flowers in full bloom! The Mountain Laurels are out, plus we still have native Flame Azalea dotting the hills! It’s worth a hike…
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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! When it rains, it pours! That’s what the old saying goes, right? Thankfully, here in upper East Tennessee, that means literal rain. On our homestead, we don’t mind the rain. Not too much! Rain is watering our little potatoes, which are popping up all over. Also, I planted some…
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