Drivel - Just An Update

No, I'm not dead nor have I dropped off the face of the earth. Just been working to the max. Storm clean up have been a constant effort. Just imagine having to wedge clean-up chores between all the regular routine jobs of keeping & creating a homestead farm. But I'm not going to kill myself trying to get it all done ASAP. I'm just chipping away at it a bit every day. 

Chipping away at it is basically how we've been creating this farm and building the house. I know that this method would drive some folks nuts, but we've managed to live with it ok. Well.....at least I have. Hubby tends to want everything done yesterday, but he's tolerated this chipping-away method pretty well. 

Today while moving the tree trunk slices up closer to the house so that they can cure a bit protected from the rain, I discovered that one of my plants is blooming. 

I don't know it's name but I think it's a bromeliad of some sort. It's never bloomed before, so I'm pleasantly surprised. 

Between clean up and regular chores I managed to forage for guavas. These are the sour kind, just for feeding to the chickens. There's a clump of trees on my way back from town and they've dropped quite a but of fruit. It took me about 15 minutes to gather these buckets, a worthy harvest for the time spent. The hens will appreciate them. Foraging is one of the ways I acquire feed for the livestock. 

Recently we've been having some colorful sunsets. The sunsets here are often beautiful. So I shall leave you with tonight's end-of-day artwork seen from my livingroom window.......