Knotty Oak Homestead

Spring arrived on our little homestead a few weeks early! Well, ever since January, the stubborn spring flowers have been coming up. We even...

A beautiful barred owl  Look who came to visit us the other day! There were actually two in the trees, but we didn't see the other ...

Today I was dyeing my daughter's white comfort blanket a nice shade of blue. I sewed a bunch of her baby burp rags together into a large...

Our own homegrown eggs are so close!!! My husband and I are preparing for the project I've been waiting for most of my life: buildi...

For me, brown sugar is one of those things that I don't really think about until I need it in a recipe. Usually I have some on hand, but...

Right now in homeschooling, my son and I are doing a unit on the colonists. So we started reading about the Jamestown settlement and now we...

We're into our second day of snow here in Maryland. A lot of it had melted by the end of yesterday; sadly our sledding tracks were mostl...