Homesteading is hot right now. There’s no denying it. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and all if their social media brethren are flooded with the glamour that is homesteading. RIght? Online homesteaders are always smiling, wearing clean clothes, and undertaking smooth projects that always turn out right. Oh, and the projects are always cool, interesting, and life changing. Right?
C’mon! That’s all good and well. But it’s not reality. Homesteading is exhausting. It’s often dirty work. And believe me when I tell you things don’t always go right. In today’s video we’ll give you a glimpse in a typical (hahahahahahaaaa!) day of real homesteading.
Bringing in some firewood rounds from the field to the splitting area, installing a range hood in the kitchen, caring for our horse, and burning some slash wood where we cut up a wind-felled tree that fell over part of our perimeter fencing is what we’ve got on the docket for today. Nope, it’s not exciting. Nope, it’s not going to be the keystone for our next ten years of success or failure. But it’s what needed done, and so we did it.
Homesteading isn’t glamorous. But it’s satisfying. Even this rather mundane task list produces a great deal of satisfaction and it will enable us to do more fun stuff later in the week.
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