Weekend Linkity-Link: State Volleyball Edition

Yesterday was a long but fun day watching Olivia's 4th & 5th grade team at the state AAU volleyball tournament. They didn't fare too well, but it was a great experience for them. There are 8 Osage teams altogether in 4th thru 8th grade, and only 1 other of those teams qualified for state. So the girls were happy just to be there. (And Olivia takes every opportunity to remind her big sister that her team did not qualify for state, hee hee.) It's interesting playing the larger schools, where it seems the girls pick one or maybe two sports, and play those all year round. In our little school that's not the case. If you're an athlete, you generally play 4 sports, one for each season. I think it makes for some well-rounded kids, even though it does get tricky for a few weeks where one sport overlaps into another.

So...onto some interesting links from around the blogosphere this week!

Twinville had several neat "chicken hacks": a nest box modifcation, a chicken coop addition, and a chicken playground. Very creative!

Karen at Rurality had a non-traditional Easter visitor. So funny!

The Beginning Farmer's Wife is starting her own sweet potato slips from a store-bought potato. It's been fun to keep track of her progress!

And finally Suzanne, aka The Farmers Wife shared a stunning photograph called Red Stepstool. While you're there be sure to stay and browse a while. Her photographic record of forgotten and decaying farm structures is fascinating!


3 years ago:

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I'll note that the insurance I talked about in this post has changed somewhat since I wrote this. It's gone up in price quite a bit.

2 years ago:

Hollywood Week Wrap Up

1 year ago:

What we're afraid of

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to my dear friends, Mindy and Lisa!

Weekend Linkity-Link: (Late) Volleyball Edition

I know, I'm a day late and the weekend is already gone. I was just so tired last night I couldn't get it together to do the regular roundup. Who knew that watching volleyball is so tiring?

Both girls had Iowa AAU volleyball tournaments Saturday. Matt was on call so couldn't go to either one. I sent Olivia with a friend, and Rafe, Madeline & I left the house at 6:45 a.m. to head to Madeline's tournament in Charles City. At 2:00 she was done, her team having missed the playoffs by just points. So I sent her home with friends, and my parents and me & Rafe headed to New Hartford for Olivia's tournament.

And oh, what excitement! Her team got first in their pool! And won through playoffs to end up in the championship game! They ended up getting 2nd, but it was so close - the final scores were 23-21 and 21-19. And since this was a qualifying tournament, 2nd place earned them an entry into the all-Iowa state tournament at the end of the month! Whew, I was exhausted! We finally rolled back home around 8:00 p.m. A long day, but so much fun :)

Now you're exhausted just reading through all that. And since it's been a couple weeks since I did this, I've got double DOUBLE! the links! Onto the roundup!

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Mountain Dweller, a new-to-me blog. Farming in the Alps somehow looks so chic.


The Terraiums Pool at Flickr. I must be craving spring - these tiny indoor gardens are calling me.

Over at Children in the Corn Ang is making yogurt! Yogurt Part 1 and Yogurt Part 2. She makes everything look so easy!

A podcast! About farming! I'm going to have to figure out my daughter's iPod thingy so I can listen to this while I'm on the treadmill. That would certainly make it more fun.

Beef stock by Slow Cook. A little different method than mine. (I think mine would be considered broth, not stock?) Looks yummy. And then later he and his wife make French onion soup with it!

Seed starting pots from toilet paper rolls at Sea 2 Shore Farm. I thought these were cool, and look much less labor intensive than the newspaper pots I've done in the past. Start saving those tp rolls!

And finally, High Hopes Gardens has been posting a series about their agricultural tour of Costa Rica. Fascinating stuff!

(I think I used a record number of exclamation points in this post!)

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3 years ago:

Why we do this

Fudge

2 years ago:

Jimmy, male chicken model