I like the color variation on these Staghorn Sumac leaves.

 Homesteading, just like most other things, is repetition. Plant, Till, Harvest, Preserve, Plant, Till, Harvest, Preserve. This makes it hard to come up with new things to blog about after a few years! All of which is my excuse for posting so seldom lately. I love learning new stuff or more exactly, learning old ways. A couple of building projects have kept me too busy to do much else lately but we will be butchering some pot belly pigs soon and I'll try to do something on that. Mean while, this will be my 188th post. Many of them are how- to sort of post and ALL of my post are based on stuff I did not just passing on someone else's experience. Have a look around, I'll be back later.