Animals DIY Learning Travel

Petrified Forest & Farmington

Petrified Forest is a pretty neat little National Park! We spent the first half of Monday exploring the colorful petrified wood and the rainbow-striped hills. This park was small, which y’all know I prefer, and packed a punch. For others like me, who don’t know much about petrified wood, it comes from ancient trees that have turned to stone! 200 million years ago, a tree might fall into a river. Over time, changing water levels…

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Animals DIY Learning Planning Travel

Phoenix & Florence

Y’all, its been a while since I shared an update–my apologies! Now I understand how some folks make a blogging their full-time job. Anywho, here we go… Saturday afternoon we headed into Phoenix as our last stop before heading to our next farm stay. I found this bar/restaurant that focused solely on mead, and since AC has talked about possibly making mead on our farm one day, I decided we needed to do a little…

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DIY Planning

DIY Truck Camper

We are now homeless on purpose! We sold our house as part of our grand plan, but we still need some place to live on our cross-country trek and in between farm stays. Rather than spend oodles of money on various hotel rooms, we decided we’ll be campers! We’ll camp out of a tent and out of our truck, depending on our moods and the weather. But before we could camp out of our truck,…

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DIY Planning Selling

Estate Sale Success!

It takes a lot of work to prepare and facilitate your own estate sale–way more than I anticipated! Now that it’s over, I’m writing this post from Mr. Snuggles, AC’s prized oversized recliner, because he is one of the few remaining pieces of furniture in our house. Pre-sale Chaos That’s right, the “estate” sale is over, and it was a smashing success! I wish I had done a better job of taking pictures and documenting…

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