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❄️ Winter storm snack prep - beef bacon edition 🐮🥓! #eatmorebeef #foodstr #homesteading

GM nostr ☕️ - here’s some baby goat spam bc that’s all I’ve got time for rn 🏃‍♀️. Happy Friday!

should we sell mine for sats?! 🧐😏 📣 THE ‘MEDALLION’ DOESN’T MAKE THE MARRIAGE 💍! #stacksats

GM nostr! Today I’ll take a double shot please✌️☕️ #coffeechain. After birthing babies at my place, bossing gates at the farm and installing (closed circuit, local storage) security cameras at my elderly aunt’s place yesterday, I’m quite exhausted. Still so much to be thankful for. The two new #nubian #dairygoats came just in time to bulk up a little before the possibility of snow Saturday (again 🥲 which I’m quite tired of Grandpa!). The #blackangus beauties are growing up quite nicely (check out that brisket!) & becoming a bit more friendly. And increasing my aunt’s sovereignty really brings me of peace of mind. Still lots of work to do to protect for impending weather! #useitorlooseit 💪 #farmstr #homesteading

GM Nostr! Looks like we were spared from the snow 🙌! Being born and raised in the south, still being able to count on one hand how many times I’ve played in accumulated snowfall, it’s a bit bitter sweet. Here’s a throwback from last year’s snow fall, almost exactly to the day, and also a hopeful AI premonition of next year’s possible snow fall 😉🧡. #staywarm #stacksats #snowbitcoinsonusplz

GM Nostr! It’s Happy Dance Friday; where we share what we’re grateful for this week. Obv. I’m most grateful for how easily Momma goat brought her babies in to the world and for how well they’re doing.

What are you grateful for this week? Drop it below 👇

#CordialCoffeeChain #HappyDanceFriday #goatstr

GM Nostr!

Lots of prep for possible ice storm later this weekend. Looks like it’s begun to push north. Sorry for y’all! Yay for us 😝🙌.

**These LGDs live at the farm. They are who I named my baby goats after on our homestead. Maya & Ander; my coworkers & best friends 🫶.

#goatstr #farmstr #homesteading #babyblackangus

Maya & Ander have made their arrival 🎂🎈🐐! In true ‘Doe Code’ fashion mom drops them right before the first great freeze of ‘26 🙄. But she is good mom & for that I am grateful. Two huge, healthy kids. One 9lb girl and 8.5lb boy. I am ecstatic to have a doeling 🥳🙌🎀. Send prayers for us that they continue to prevail through the late weekend and that the next due, Aunt Sago, holds her’s in until it passes 🙏🤞.

#HBD #goatstr #rawmilk #homesteading #farmstr #thedoecode #farmphotography

We had quite a Hay Day on the farm today! Lots of guiding and shuffling and shifting gears 🚜. The Boss Lady borrowed a big ass forklift from the neighbor and that thing did work son 💪.

We had to opt for a new Canadian, Timothy / Orchard, blend and we threw in two pallets Alfalfa for the dairy goats. 🥛. 22 pallets total! Even got it loaded in to the new (unfinished) hay shed.

#farmstr #proofofwork #hay #homesteading #goatstr #horsestr #donkeystr #haydealer

GM Nostr! I can feel the burn of the this long, dark, season drawing to an end and I couldn’t be more excited… The days are growing longer and that lights my soul ☀️. We’re hard at work on the farm preparing for another successful year at the local farmers market. If you’re interested, check out Boss Man Farmer Ray’s 2026 update. This is where I spend my weekdays. This is where I find a lot of my joy.

https://youtu.be/JX5eTcyvWRo?si=id3hIYAcCRfLk3B_

#farmstr #coffeechain #dogstr #farmtotable #homesteading #gardenstr #growstr

Cold front is coming 🥶 que the crazies…

This is Payday. He’s a #mininubian. The big buck on campus, in the dept that matters most 🥜😝. A good buck can be worth their weight in gold. His personality is the best and he comes from line of good genes. The farm hit the jackpot with him.

#farmstr #rawmilk #goatstr #homesteading

GM nostr. We’re at this week’s halfway point!

Yesterday I started a new local weekly women’s Bible study. As I spend all of my days willingly isolated on the farm, it gets lonely often. Being at Bible study makes me feel more apart of a village & ‘if you want a village you’ve got be an active member’ or something like that, yada yada…

It wasn’t easy to show up alone, but they graciously welcomed me even before I was a believer some years ago. (Yes, I was that desperate for human interaction some years ago that I went to Bible study as a non-believer). And it’s not easy to walk away from my farm projects to spend time doing something that only benefits my soul. It feels selfish, but I’m beginning to learn this is necessary for me. Self-care or some crap lol? What do you guys do to fill your social cups?

Anyways, here’s to new friends who don’t have feathers 😹😸👏🙌!

#christisking #bethevillage #farmphotography #homesteading

Spent Saturday in the saddle with Mrs. Boss Lady at the farm. It was warm (our area hit an all time high record 🥲) so we went early in the morning. When the frogs in the bog were still singing as the bright sun peaked through the tops of the pines. Experiences like these fill my soul. 10/10 recommend!! #touchgrass #farmstr #getoutdoors #memorecowboythanyou

GM Nostr, 🎤 it’s tttiiimmmeee 🎶.

Got the pickling cucumber babies moved to kegger cups yesterday. Pickles are a favorite at the farm! It’s so nice to see some new life around here 🌱.

#homesteading #farmstr #farmtotable #gardenstr #farmphotography #zone8A

Turning 35 today 🎂! The last five years flew by while I was deep in self-healing by isolating in nature, finding God, and using every free resource I could find to grow. My birthday always got sidelined growing up (one of six kids, two weeks after Christmas). But, as an adult, I see all the free ways they could’ve made me feel special. So I heal another piece of my inner child today: bought myself the saxophone I lost when our home was foreclosed in ‘08. Most of my childhood things are gone—mom’s alcoholism and an abusive marriage left scars (I was spared physically, but the hurt was real). My journey is not over! I’m not where I want to be, but I have far surpassed my goal from five years ago. My greatest gifts are that God lights my path and my husband

never gives up on me ❤️. Today and until I decide to put it down again, I’ll play for fun and make a ‘joyful noise for Jesus’, the little girl I once was, and the woman I am today.

Thank you God for another trip around the sun 🙏.
#HBD TO ME! **Stay tuned for #SaxForSats 😂🎷✨

GM nostr ☕️. May your Monday be over easy 🍳.

Our turkeys have turned seven months old and started laying, yayy! We only get white and green duck eggs around here so the speckles add a special sparkle to the mix. Here’s to finding joy in the little things this week. #farmstr #farmtotable #homesteading

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Someone called it the year of the horse, but

claims it’s the year of the cow 🐄#eatmorebeef #foodstr

Sometimes you gotta grow your own luck 🥬📈🤞 #HNY26 #gardenstr #farmtotable

My #coffeechain mug choice when I see four more days of rain in the forecast at the farm 🥲… I think my daily combo of dry winter clothes and shoes weigh more than I do. I’m tired yall 😮‍💨. Considering hibernation bc #fuckthisshit.

Happy Friday ☕️🥶💦

Sunday restock 🐐🥛🧼

Got lots done on the homestead this weekend! -Cleaned up some debris from a fallen tree in the #goatstr pen and burned a big ol’ brush pile. Lots of good firewood still there for later this winter though 🪵! -We made a big dent in our serving tray order. That’s what the dogs were helping with yesterday. We’re gonna get that delivered to the retail store Black Friday am. So that’s what we’ll be doing in the PM’s this week. -Got some waterfowl wings cut this afternoon. Muscovys are really great flyers and we hate to cut their wings, but to avoid them flying off and coming home with clutches of 30 ducklings, it has to be done. We also do it out of respect for our neighbors since they’ll go as far as their property and roost around their home. Had to cut the heritage turkeys’ wings too. The barnyard mix breed ducks are too fat to fly. -Restocked the goats milk soap supply. Went with orange & ceadarwood scent this time. -Enjoyed a sermon by The Church of Eleven22 and found a cool Christian marriage advent program that’s also #ennegram based. I’m excited to start that in December! We’ve been having a lot of fun with that “woo woo” stuff lately.

#homesteading #selfsufficeint #goatmilksoap

My Saturday supervisors 🐾 #dogstr #woodworking #nodaysoff #yougoIgo

🤙HFSP

GM nostr T - 2 months until we’re filling freezers!! Down here the decent meat processors close intake for cattle until deer season is done. Its finish fed until then. Feed your angus how you want, I like mine with a little fat.

#homesteading #farmstr #farmtotable #homegrown #cowstr #blackangus #beef #coffeechain

GM nostr We’ve got a warm front coming and nothing makes me happier ☺️!! We’ll be back in the 80’s today. Probably for the last time this year so #catchmeoutside with Buddy the #goatstr. Who acts exactly like Buddy the elf. #homesteading #farmstr #watchthosehornspal

No #coffeechain bc of course he knocked it over.