Author Archives: Kelli Miller

Duddy A friend of ours invited Olivia on a trail ride this past Saturday, out at his in-laws’ farm. Sounded nice. Just so happened that the guy who sold us Star had mentioned the week before that he had another … Continue reading →

The kids had the day off school today so I took the day off, too, and we hit the Appleberry Farm to pick some apples. Appleberry is just west of Marshalltown, which is a couple of hours south of us. … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon’s task was to sort 5 pigs… from a pen of 14…right after a heavy rain. And not just any 5 pigs. The 5 Chester Whites of the bunch. It was a little hard to tell which ones were … Continue reading →

one brussel sprout at a time. Well, that may be a bit grandiose. But this quote from Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” (which I just finally started reading) really floored me: “If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a … Continue reading →

Double digits. Our middle child. (What will that come to mean in the future?) The loudest child at home, but very very quiet anywhere else. The “horse person” in the family. She’s teaching us about them. Straight A’s so far … Continue reading →

Travelling again, for work this time. Just had to try out this airport wireless thing with my new laptop 🙂 This has been quite the year of travel for me. Ready to stay home for (quite) a while. It’s definitely … Continue reading →

Some pictures I took in my brother’s barn recently

I feel like there’s so much to catch y’all up on. Here’s one of those things. A couple of Saturday’s ago Olivia came in from feeding pigs and said, “Um, we have baby pigs?” You might remember the disasterous farrowings … Continue reading →

Ike and his flock The electric poultry netting we use is on its last legs. We’ve used it for 4 years now, 8 batches of broilers. Some of the wire has come undone, leaving gaps in the fence. That’s not … Continue reading →

will probably never look this nice again. Matt spent an entire day weeding and prettying up the entire garden for the photo shoot. He thought he might never stand up straight again. Some more melon-y goodness for your viewing pleasure: