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ketflan

@ketflan

Mother, grandmother, homesteader, wannabe hermit, painter, author, crafter, mechanic, crazy chicken lady, dog lover, cat fancier, hobby prepper and survivor.

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@ketflan Aug 28, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

WTF People

This is probably not going to be a popular post, but here goes. You have probably heard about Hurricane Harvey and how it is devastating Houston. People are trapped in and on their homes, texting, tw…

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@ketflan Aug 23, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

My Week So Far

Saturday - up 3 hours early, morning chores done, horse trailer hitched and on the road. Going to pick up our first-ever owned horse. My granddaughter rides but for the last 3 years she has used less…

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@ketflan Aug 23, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

OOPS

I left my little island on Saturday, was gone for about 8 hours. Came home to find a hose on the pond pump had pulled lose and water was pumping not into the filter but into the dirt outside the pond…

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@ketflan Aug 18, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

Looking Back

Another retrospective post, this one from 3/11/2013 And I am exhausted. Thursday Al and I took the truck off island to the Dodge dealer. After having the shocks and brakes replaced by our local mecha…

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@ketflan Aug 18, 2017, 8:03 PM UTC

High Anxiety to Silver Linings

My anxiety level has been really high this week. If ignored it usually leads to a deep depression, so I have spent a couple of days looking for the good in everything, the silver lining to the gray c…

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@ketflan Aug 13, 2017, 8:19 PM UTC

Water, water. An update

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am installing a pond to help redirect the rainwater that floods about 1/3 of my land into one location and then out to the drainage ditch in front of the propert…

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@ketflan Aug 13, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

Chicken coops, then vs now

Another post from way back when. We had lost our home when the landlord was foreclosed on, she had collected rent from us each month but didn't pay the mortgage. At the time of the post, we were livi…

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@ketflan Aug 11, 2017, 7:36 PM UTC

Water, Water, Everywhere

Imagine trying to pasture animals on land that is underwater much of the year. We bought our little one-acre plot of land intending to homestead, to become self-sufficient. We accepted the selling re…

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@ketflan Aug 7, 2017, 10:00 PM UTC

Beach Journey

Yesterday we went exploring our new home on this small island, following the roads at random. We saw private homes with private beaches and their own private docks lined up in orderly fashion along t…

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@ketflan Aug 7, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

Color challenge Red

We used to have a lot of dahlias, but this year the red is the first to bloom. /20170731_094004.jpg)

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