…Like yesterday. It’s been a year since we butchered our free range chickens after many attempts to save them from coyotes. No matter what we did, we just couldn’t take the free range out of the birds. So the decision…
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I know. It’s been a while…. Like 15 months a while! You’re probably thinking I fell off the face of the earth. In some ways it kinda feels just like that… but I’m back. Refreshed. Feeling awesome. Rocking being a…
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As the one year anniversary of The Givens Grove blog approached, I had some tough questions for myself. How do I feel about continuing the blog? Do I like it? Does it stress me out? Is it pointless? Ugh…..tough questions….
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Chad and I have owned/built several houses since we married, but those houses were always built to sell. They were never truly mine. Actually, I haven’t lived in a home that was “mine” per-say since I was 8 years old. …
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Yes, those are cows out my car window. We live in the country but still….cows wandering the roads freely isn’t exactly normalcy. But dreaming about them……totally normal for any up and coming homesteader. Promise. For three years I have wanted…
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It’s that time of year. The time where you naturally assess your life and where you want to go. The possibilities are endless, literally. The span of your imagination is the only limitation you have. Well, your imagination and your…
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Does anyone else dream of freshly milled lumber? From their own back yard? ….”crickets chirping”…. Well I do! A year and a half ago…I decided on a dream. A huge dream that I knew would never come to fruition. But…
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