little house on the homestead

things are coming together on our as-yet-unnamed little acreage. 

yesterday, we harvested the brussels sprouts from the garden and pulled up all of the squash vines, the empty cabbage nests (i don't even know what to call them), and the scraggly green onions. we need to pull up the last of the tomato vines and then that bed will be ready to prep for next year. 

i'm not 100% certain i'll get a full-on in-ground garden going, but mister is going to make me at least 3 more raised beds for veggies and if he can swing it, i'd like to get an herb bed going as well as a few beds for flowers. oh, and i need a pumpkin mound. and potato patch. o.O i need to remember that it's ok to start smaller and be successful than to do ALL THE THINGS AT ONCE and half-ass the entire process. 

while all this is being planned and plotted, i am keeping my eyes out for canning supply sales. i need quart, pint, and half pint jars. i need lids and rings. and a pressure canner is not necessarily off the table, although i do fear that i will explode things. 

as a frugal little homesteader, i tried my hand at walmart grocery shopping yesterday and bought quite a few marked down things. i got a huge cheese pizza for $4 and dolled it up for dinner — with my extra touches, it tasted like a $9 huge pizza! in other words? probably never buying walmart pizza again. 

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