Haphazard Homestead

It's hard to believe that a quarter of the year has already passed.  Time just flies for me lately! I set some goals at the beginning ...

Gardening has begun at Haphazard Homestead! I now have a new printer and have begun using the garden planner I purchased earlier this year...

Since Shane will be home and our weekend will begin tomorrow, and since the last day of February is today, I decided to write my Friday post...

On the table... The 30-Year Old Cooking Virgin's Skillet Basil Cream Chicken on Valentine's Day, Paula Deen's Southern Fried ...

I set some goals at the beginning of the year, so I thought I'd give a quick monthly update on my progress. Reading:  Goal - 18 Boo...

Today ends Week 2 of Northwest Edible Life's No-Spend Month of October .  To participate, I decided to challenge myself to spend zero mo...

(Source) Flying by, but too busy to stop for a post.  Shane is working out of town this week, I have lots of gardening and kitchen tasks...

By now you know I like to cook and that I try to steer my family and myself away from a lot of junk foods and pre-packaged convenience foods...

I'm baffled why Friday's posts didn't publish as scheduled; I didn't realize it until this morning when I found I had to pub...

What's your Internet Achilles' heal?  For some it's Pinterest.  For others, it's on-line games.  For someone else, it might ...

Somehow I've got it in my head that we won't really be homesteading, urban or otherwise, until we get some laying hens.  Silly, I ...

Last week I wrote about our decision to NOT replace a part on our kitchen stove .  In the comments the conversation turned to repairing inst...

Shane and I did a lot of work this weekend, but you can't tell by looking around the house.  Most of our work was on paper. On Saturda...

One thing we've learned about spending deliberately is that some things just aren't important enough to trade our money for.  An e...

When I quit posting on my old blog a few months ago, I honestly didn't know if I'd come back to a blog or not.  I began thinking o...