The Frugal Farm Living life deliberately

so it is really hard to get back into blogging once you have taken a long break. My 3 older kids are back in school so my days have calmed down a little. Promise I'll post more soon! I have a good skunk story to share!

as you might have guessed, we've been on vacation! We're heading home in the morning. Look for a full report of our week of fun!

Well, it probably isn't hot enough to consider these the dog days of summer, but we're almost halfway through summer vacation! Things are so busy that I go a couple days between online sessions (sorry if I haven't read your blog lately or posted on Facebook....I just haven't been online! If it's that important, call me on the phone!)

I have declared 2009 "The Year of the Raspberry" since we've already picked gallons and made jam and frozen crushed berries for jam. Don't let the color fool you, but those yellow raspberries might be the best things on the planet. We were excited to have enough for jam. Usually we just eat them all but this year the bushes are very generous.  read more »

Yesterday I chopped off my hair. Well, not me personally. Erin at the salon did the actual chopping. I have never had hair this short before. But I am happy with the results, and need to spend some quality time learning how to style it quickly.

Then I tried to get a good picture of the haircut and got all of these instead.

Though we rarely see them,
We know when they've been here.
The unripe fruit goes missing;
They're very hungry deer.