Introduction

~Welcome to my first posting in our blog~For our first entry I am just going to start off with the basics. Our family of 3 lives in Eastern Iowa. Besides the Tornados and the flooding that happened this year things are pretty uneventful. We like it that way, slow and relaxed. Granted there isnt a whole lot to do but thats ok, we manage to entertain ourselves and enjoy living the country life!Our home was built approx 1929, surrounded by 5 acres of pasture. This used to be an old dairy farm with many more acres but as time went on the tillable acres were sold off and are now farmed by other folks. Making up our hobby farm are our 2 horses which are used for showing and trail riding (we took 2008 off from the shows), 10 goats two of which are being raised for butchering, 30+ chickens which are happily free ranging in the yard, 2 ducks & approx 17 rabbits which are going to be used for meat. We have a nice garden, an apple tree, raspberries, rhubarb and a small herb garden that my son & I started this year. The vegetable garden has an interesting story, at least I think so....I will post more about it in a later blog and how we had to do the garden area.