Busy Hands Homestead

    Sylvan is sleeping, and Ivory is successfully (so far) struggling to keep her sleepy eyes open. Adam is puttering around in the kitchen packing up supplies for the up coming week. It is Sunday evening and after far to few nights together, he is getting ready to head off to work at 7 in the morning. He is coming back... Thursday? Night time can be overwhelming. The dogs are lacking their walks.      But, while Adam is out of town I get to cook as many beets as I would like. This is an opportunity of which I have not been taking adequate advantage. Experiment Number 1: Roasted Beets with a Apple Sour Cream Sauce 6 medium sized beets oil a hand full of beet leaves 1 cup of apple juice ½ cup of sour cream I cut the beets into wedges (so that Ivory could dip them in the sauce. She loves to dip things), tossed them in oil, threw them on a cookie sheet and baked them at 375 for 45min. While the beets were ...

Were to begin?     I thought, in all honesty, that we would go on this amazing road trip, and that I would blog about it on the way. It was an amazing road trip, but the blogging and picture taking didn't happen as much as it could have... I just have a hard time putting a screen between myself and the actual events.     Well, we put a little over 5000 miles on our car. Our little Suzuki Reno is now officially no longer covered by it's 100,000 mile power-train warranty. We didn't even notice... until we had gone 700 miles over. I think that might have been somewhere in South Dakota.     I loaded and unloaded our car so many times that by the end of it I managed to fit our two children, toys, lots and lots of cloth diapers, a double stroller, a doll stroller, two sleeping bags, a four man tent, two quilts, cooking pots, a camping stove, picnic dishes, a cooler, a duffel bag, two back packs, the laptop bag, a CD case, work boots, chain oil...