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 Bones were added to deep pot and veggies added as well. The pot here contained chard, kale, onions, garlic, bay, oregano, peppers, apples, mushrooms, some other stuff, and bones. :)  After 48 hours on the stove, the liquid was strained and separated from the leftover veggie and bone parts. This was fed to the chickens...recycle, reuse!!  The broth or stock was poured into pint jars.  Each jar was filled - four in all.  Three were placed in the pressure canner. One was refrigerator. These are the three pressure cans of stock or bone broth.

I installed a mailbox onto the fence of the garden to keep the garden tools handy. :)

My younger son found a rotary saw blade that had been discarded and brought it home to make a knife. It is process in the making, and is not a finished product yet, but he is making some progress.  I did not get a picture of the saw blade before he started.    This is where the knife piece he started with came from. You can see how the pieces fit together.    Here he has shaped it out a bit.    And, here it is more knife shaped. It is sharp. He plans to make the handle from recycled wood pieces.

This summer a tree fell and took out a large section of the chicken yard fencing and part of the coop itself. We built back a fence to get the chickens back into the coop as soon as possible, but knew the fencing would be temporary. I came up with this idea that it would be good to have sections of fence that would be permanently affixed to the fence posts, but each independent of each other. If something is to fall or damage a section, it can be easily repaired or replaced. I used most of the wood we had laying around that I had left over from other varying projects. I spent like $50 total I think in the end with the wood I had to buy to finish off the project. Each section is framed together and then I recycled netting and fencing we already had to cover each frame. Each frame is then screwed permanently to the post and then the pieces have scrap wood or extra fencing between the frame pieces to close the gaps. It sounds more complicated a process than it actually was. As usual, som...

This is another blanket made for baby Aaden!  This was super simple to do. The front was bought as a single piece from Walmart and the back was prequilted from Walmart. I sewed the two pieces together by hand and then trimmed the brown frame on the front with a simple running stitch and did the same for selected leaves on the front of the blanket to keep the print/picture in place.

I finished my grandson's baby afghan this weekend. It is a double strand afghan made of blue and cream yarn. It is soft and warm. I am happy with the finished product.

I used the pattern from http://jahodnett.tripod.com/id112.html  for these booties. I did modify it a bit in that I did a final round of double crochet stitches, instead of half double crochet stitches.

My hubby and younger child helped me to finish the recycled pallet wall this past week!  view from the back.  gated entrance. lock on gate! :)   I did (and am still) going around the base on the inside of the garden to apply spare netting and left over caging material to piecemeal a way to keep the chickens (and other smaller animals) out between the cracks in the pallets.  This is the view from inside the gate. Please excuse the mess of some of the beds and raised tables. Some of these are being prepped for the spring.  This is the view from the top looking down!