Farmhouse Friday - Week 27 - July 4th and More

 

It's a tradition, that we go to the Antigo parade each year.  Grandma lived right off the parade route.  The parade seems different without stopping at her house first for a patriotic dessert, walking to the corner, watching her visiting with neighbors.  Time moves on I guess, we can only grab a hold of and create memories of during what little time we live.  

I love this bouquet from Green's Flower Farm a friend, for the second summer, has gifted me with a weekly flower subscription.  I'm getting so spoiled with these!  This one looks like fireworks.  

Then, without going into too much detail, I had a rough day with so many struggles with my mobility, disease, other's perception of me, it was just too many things in like 48 hours.  The last thing...almost broke me...I did have a good cry about it.  Anyway, I wanted to call my brother and tell him about it, because he had mobility issues and understands it.  Well, about 30 minutes after I hung up, Al came in with this bouquet my brother and sister-in-law dropped off.  Then I cried again.

Our bees are doing great!  Al thinks we can get some honey pretty soon.  I love just sitting and listening to the hum.

With all the heat the garden is really doing good.  

I spy a garlic I missed harvesting.  I like garlic scapes.  

We had a few wet days this week, so the ramp isn't totally finished.  I have been using it and it is great!  I will share photos next week.  I am almost done boxing up donate items left over from the sale here.  I am just letting it go.  I still see some value in most of what is left, but I need to move on to the next phase of my Swedish Death Cleanse.  

Have a great weekend.  It's hay time here.  

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.  

Farmhouse Friday - Week 26 Wild Flowers

 

Until the Zinnia's bloom in our newly created hedge, the rest of this pasture is full of several underated wild flowers.  

Some produce starting in the garden.

Look what fell out of a tree.  Remember my telling you about the tornado in Ringle in April?  This little nest was made of insulation, from damaged homes, which was in lots of trees in our township.  I just love how birds recycle.  

A couple years ago, when we made this porch enclosure, I could walk up the ramp.  However, since breaking my femur and having 12 pins in my knee, it hurts to do it.  So, our nephews are fixing the ramp so it's not too steep.  

This was accomplished by raising up the door from ground level.  Now we will put a ramp out here.  They are working on it today.  Our nephew came up with a good idea, so it will be a longer type ramp, that twists back toward the house.  Might as well build it right now, as I will need this when I progress to a permanent mobility devise.  

This is my great-great nephew, he came to visit one day while they were working.  He is 3 weeks old.  He's just perfect.  

Not sure the weather will cooperate for the 4th of July celebrations and parade.  Looks like we will be cooler at least.  

Happy 250th America. 

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.  

Farmhouse Friday - Week 25 - Selling at the Farm

 

Well, I did it.  The first of my own estate sale.  Al and Anna helped me set up.  Truthfully, I did a majority of it by myself, with the Lord's help.  I did drop and break stuff - oh, well...few less things to sell.  The weather was beautiful too.  

I was going to set up tents, pull out what I wanted to sell and stage in tents.  However, wind, rain, hail type of weather, Al convinced me to just start in a corner and work on it.  It was a HUGE mess, but the best idea.  

The befores...

Al helped me set up tables in the middle and I found a place to sit and mark items.  

This sale had mostly things you can create with.  Bundles of crafting wool, linens, fabric....

Already felted wool, wool sweaters....

unfinished projects, fabric and lots of miscellaneous.  

The afters....

I made the mistake of saying "everything was $10 or less."  That would have worked, if I set up in the tents.  However, using my building, I had all kinds of stuff in here, so we had to hide it.  I still want to sell most of it, but not for $10 or less.  

This happened....

This also happened....

Speaking of becoming "rich" - these words are priceless.  

Now to evaluate left overs - toss, burn, donate, maybe lots for sale.  

Swedish death cleaning continues.

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.  

Farmhouse Friday - Week 24 - Little Bit of This and That

 

We had some trees fall down in the storms, so Al is making firewood to use in our sauna.  

We planted grass where we used to have garden.  We are trying to make things easier - work smarter not harder, right!

The garden was all the way to the field.  We usually planted like half the garden in sweet corn.  However, the past few years we have had racoons, wind, deer tear apart the corn and it was all the work and no yield.  We'll just buy sweet corn from the neighbor.  

Squash is looking good.  

We have had so much rain!  You know it's almost haying time.  With this wet of a field, good luck until mid July.  

Well, Al dumped out the burn barrel.  We had all those papers we burned last weekend.  There must have been a hot spot still in the barrel, days and rain later, because when we went back outside after supper, it was on fire!  Good thing we went back out.

It's 4H fair project time.  I taught needle felting and Natalie taught painting.  

Lauren came over for Grandma craft day.  We made these cement mushrooms.  

We had our monthly 4H meeting.  Braelyn, one of our members, works at the Applewood Lane Alpaca Farm so she set up a tour.

I was tagged in a Facebook post.  (smile)  Glad all the years of teaching and sharing my art, people remembered me.  

I am still working on my set up of the 1st sale of 2026.  I'll share more next week.  Even some before and afters.  My week has been a little bit of this and that.  How was yours?  Thanks for all the comments on last several posts!  (smile). 

Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.