A lot to tell you

Greetings everyone .
We haven't been on here for a while and we have much to tell you. We would like to start by thanking Shelly & Dave for selling us their ice box, we are finally ready to make the transition to "unplugged" food preservation. We have a "block" of  ice in the ice box to test what temperatures we can get. There are two more buckets of water in our electric freezer getting ready for tomorrow (Sunday) and we now have to go through the fridge and empty/clean it out in preparation for moving it out and moving the ice box in. There cubic in the ice box is smaller that the fridge which means ... we must be careful about what we put into it.

We had a day off today, something which doesn't happen often. We stopped at a few antique shops on the way to get the ice box and finally picked up an authentic candle mould (yay, we can pour candles now as well as dip them), a masher tool, two creamers and put a down payment on a doctor's buggy. It needs work, but we have a year before we'll need to use it.

When we arrived home with our possessions, we realized we would need to map out a paddock for the horses and we have done so. All that's needed now are some posts, some rails, a shelter, water trough and a manger.

We also did a little more planting, and put cut grass around the plants to help retain water. We will need a lot of the grass cutting for this and fortunately, our lawns are very good producers. The weather we've had so far has made for quick growing grass and a lot of harvesting for me. I'm still gathering materials for a hay loft and will be storing grass (hay as I call it) for bedding the birds and perhaps a little bit of feed should we need it.
Margaret here...in our travels when we meet people and tell them what we are doing, the first thing they say to us is "I bet it is hard to get used to " and truthfully we tell them .."no it is not"
Now we understand that this is the summer and winter might bring us challenges we had not thought about, I am thinking laundry might be a challenge. And frozen fingers hanging laundry in the winter. But we will deal with that as it comes. most people think what we are doing is cool. Which is fun to hear. Although it is funny watching their faces change when they think about no tv ...they kind of get this panic look ...
Our gardens are growing wonderfully and today we lucked out by finding more squash plants for 50 cents a container...we are going to have lots and lots of every kind of squash imaginable ...I am sure we will have lots to share. Our brussel sprouts are getting huge, and we have cucumbers ...too small to eat yet but won't be long.
Our potato plants are just beautiful and flowering , my lovely husband is so excited about all of our potato plants and how well they have done this year. It is proving to be a good growing year indeed.
Ken mentioned our buggy ,,wow are we excited to have found it . We have lots of plans and will keep you informed .Hopefully we can figure out how to post photos on here to show everyone . Well that is all for now. I need to take my lovely husband upstairs and beat his butt in scrabble so I will say good night to you all for now.
Nope this life is not hard at all, it is quiet,peaceful,time spent talking and sharing, gardening and enjoying life ..