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“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others."
-- 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
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Long Time, No Update

September 2, 2019 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Wow, I just took a look at our blog and it’s been 5 years since our last post. There definitely has been a lot happening since that time. We had all the intention of creating and keeping this blog going over the years but then kids happened. Our oldest is 5 years old and we […]

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Working the night away

February 25, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

We pick up the goats this weekend so I’m maximizing the amount of time I’m putting into the goat shed to finish it in time. The only way to do that is to get the work lights set up. It’s warmer lately, but the sun still goes down so early. A genny and a work […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: Goats, Shed

Raising the Roof on the Goat Shed

February 23, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

This weekend seemed to be a really rough one. I’m writing this a few days after the fact but still feeling every muscle. The soreness is taking it’s time to disappear. Getting the boards all lined out for the walls didn’t take too long. Installing the beams and rafters took a lot longer than I […]

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A Few of the more Fun Projects this week

February 19, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

This week I was pretty beat up from moving concrete and digging holes. My mother-in-law helped with the concrete, and Ashley did what she could but being pregnant kept her from helping with any lifting. So most of the week I spent looking for a few lighter duty projects. I still needed to keep up […]

Filed Under: Family, Homesteading Tagged With: Homesteading, HoneyDo, Mason

Goat Shed and Paddock Progress

February 15, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

This last weekend was very tiring. I’m actually writing this almost a week later and back dating this post because I wore myself out so much. It all started with purchasing 40 bags of concrete. This amounted to just over 3,000 pounds of concrete. That I had to lift off the trailer and then of […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: Goats, paddock, Shed

Honey Do: Toilet Diaper Sprayer

February 11, 2014 by Jason Diehl 1 Comment

I’m not sure if explaining this alone would fully do it justice. You really have to see it, so make sure you take a look at the pictures below. When I was first describing what I was doing to my brother-in-law he immediately said, “Oh like a Bidet”. Um no, and do NOT try to […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: Baby, Diapers, HoneyDo, Mason

Building a place to Lay Eggs

February 10, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

If you’ve seen our previous post, you know our hens have started laying finally. It took just over 5 months to get them to start but our hens came of age right in the middle of winter. Which in itself isn’t ideal. Chickens like sunlight and when the days are shorter they tend to go […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: chicken coop, Chickens, eggs, nesting box

Breakfast this morning was homegrown

February 9, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting some time now to see if our chickens were ever going to start laying. They are just over 5 months old now, but I figured with the cold weather and decreased sunlight, they came to age in the time they would normally be molting. So I knew it would be a little […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: chicken, Chickens, eggs

Goats: Good News and Bad News

February 9, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Well first the bad news. We received an email from the Fleshman’s one of our goats didn’t make it. Some complication occurred and the goat passed away Friday night. It’s possible it was from worms or an infection. The Fleshman’s mentioned that they had run out of their herbal wormer because the supplier ran out. […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: goat fence, Goats

Our best pictures of Mason so far!

January 29, 2014 by Jason Diehl 2 Comments

Since the only people that really visit our blog are friends and family. Everyone should know we are expecting of course. We are expecting a bright eyed Baby Boy to make his appearance some time around mid April. His name is Mason James Diehl. Naturally, the plans to have a family are some of the […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: Baby, children

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