NowHere Farms

My friends over at The Steward Family Homestead  had a social media post this weekend about the reality of how working homesteaders dress to get chores done.   I was reminded of something I wrote back in 2013 ~ waaaay before we were doing this as a business! ~ about Country Girl Couture.  For the record, I am a lot less old-fashioned these days, and more likely to be in jeans, shorts, or sweats than a house dress, but for your entertainment.... Country Girl Couture I have become a country girl.  And I am a little (!) old-fashioned.  Most days I am at the house taking care of things here.  A trip to town has become an event.  Since I find slacks and jeans uncomfortable what with the various medical accoutrements, I wear a skirt and blouse or a dress.  Since I have glaring-pasty-white legs, that means stockings.  And since I am a Southern Girl, I put on my small string of pearls that my dear Aunt ...

Last week I had some medical testing scheduled for Friday (everything came back fine). Cletus asked me to not try to do market as market requires a large chunk of Friday to get baking and prep done. And being up until 2 or 3 am has been known on rare occasions to maybe make me a little less than....sweet and cheerful. After the tests we came home and I was thinking, "All right! That's it!! No more kidney stones/flu/testing and we are back to market EVERY WEEK!!". You know that line about, "Man proposes, God disposes"? Saturday Cletus was out working on the chicken run pushing posts into (very soft) ground. When I heard him come in, I walked out and the look on his face.... He said he had hurt his elbow. Said he heard and felt a pop and it HURT. We debated an urgent care trip, but decided if he could tough it out we would wait until Monday when he could see his Orthopedic doctor. We were able to get in with the doctor today and it turns out Cletus has...