The White Family Homesteaders

     All we wanted to do was put up a fence you wouldn’t think it would be so hard but calling 811 was a pain in our booty.  We needed to dig some big holes for the posts and papa had to say that he thought that there were possibly power lines in line where we were going to dig.  After that all I could hear was that darn commercial “call before you dig to be safe”.  The hubby put the work order in online and we had to wait 48 hours for the utility companies to come and find their lines.  Well two days came and went and no one showed up, I immediately regretted following the rules but that’s what I do.  I called and asked why it hadn’t been done and we got the reason that we didn’t give them good enough directions to our marked address.  I didn’t know it would be so hard for them to find our house, well they finally were able to locate us and the lines and we were able to move on with our fence project. Look at my favorite people work...

So as you can see we've relocated where we blog.  We want to keep everyone updated on what we are doing on the homestead and the last blog site was making it too difficult. Our garden has been keeping us busy the last couple of weeks. We direct sowed our peas, onions, beets, and leafy greens into their appointed rows for this season.  I'm super duper excited to see some of them sprouting from the ground. We transplanted our tomatoes into the garden but unfortunately either the deer or the darn squirrels got their grubby little paws on them.  We are hoping that they grow back soon.  My handy hubby put together a motion activated scarecrow to hopefully keep those critters out of the garden.  Here's a link to our you tube video so you can see it in action  here. Yesterday we had quite a productive day on the homestead.  We transplanted 14 cucumber, 8 zucchini, a few pumpkin and watermelon plants.  To help them get established before any wildlife ...