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ketflan
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Mother, grandmother, homesteader, wannabe hermit, painter, author, crafter, mechanic, crazy chicken lady, dog lover, cat fancier, hobby prepper and survivor.
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ketflan
survival
2017-08-28 16:21
WTF People
This is probably not going to be a popular post, but here goes. You have probably heard about Hurricane Harvey and how it is devastating Houston. People are trapped in and on their homes, texting, tweeting
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-23 18:31
My Week So Far
Saturday - up 3 hours early, morning chores done, horse trailer hitched and on the road. Going to pick up our first-ever owned horse. My granddaughter rides but for the last 3 years she has used lesson
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-23 16:49
OOPS
I left my little island on Saturday, was gone for about 8 hours. Came home to find a hose on the pond pump had pulled lose and water was pumping not into the filter but into the dirt outside the pond.
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-18 20:25
Looking Back
Another retrospective post, this one from 3/11/2013 And I am exhausted. Thursday Al and I took the truck off island to the Dodge dealer. After having the shocks and brakes replaced by our local mechanic,
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ketflan
depression
2017-08-18 20:03
High Anxiety to Silver Linings
My anxiety level has been really high this week. If ignored it usually leads to a deep depression, so I have spent a couple of days looking for the good in everything, the silver lining to the gray clouds
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-13 20:19
Water, water. An update
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am installing a pond to help redirect the rainwater that floods about 1/3 of my land into one location and then out to the drainage ditch in front of the property.
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-13 18:25
Chicken coops, then vs now
Another post from way back when. We had lost our home when the landlord was foreclosed on, she had collected rent from us each month but didn't pay the mortgage. At the time of the post, we were living
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-11 19:36
Water, Water, Everywhere
Imagine trying to pasture animals on land that is underwater much of the year. We bought our little one-acre plot of land intending to homestead, to become self-sufficient. We accepted the selling realtor's
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ketflan
beach
2017-08-07 22:00
Beach Journey
Yesterday we went exploring our new home on this small island, following the roads at random. We saw private homes with private beaches and their own private docks lined up in orderly fashion along the
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ketflan
color
2017-08-07 20:08
Color challenge Red
We used to have a lot of dahlias, but this year the red is the first to bloom. /20170731_094004.jpg)
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ketflan
homestead
2017-08-07 19:54
Poop, Coops and More
This post is a journal entry from five years ago when I bought my first house. I was so in love with the romantic notion of dropping a few coops and seeds in the yard, add chickens and sit back to a harvest
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introduction
2017-08-04 18:17
Dithering and a Decision
It's been several days since I started writing this blog and I still haven't posted the first entry. I have been going around and around trying to decide what the focus will be: my attempts to convert
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ketflan
colorchallenge
2017-08-04 17:42
Blue, my island home
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yellow
2017-08-02 17:29
Yellow
The sun hidden behind the clouds shows its face only in the reflection on the water.
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ketflan
introduction
2017-08-02 01:04
Is this me?
I was told I should include a picture of myself in my introduction. This is my answer to that
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ketflan
hello
2017-08-02 00:34
Jill of all trades, Mistress of None, Ever the Student
Mother, grandmother, homesteader, wannabe hermit, painter, author, crafter, mechanic, crazy chicken lady, dog lover, cat fancier, hobby prepper and survivor. Raised in the suburbs, lived in a big city,
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