We're moving!

No, unfortunately we have not found the acreage we are looking for. But, we are moving the blog! The blog has become so popular that it needs its own website. Its new home will be www.rwsus.com  Same as it is now, but no blogspot! This allows us to add advertising to the blog and will allow you, the reader, to add comments and pictures after they have been approved by the administrators. Thank you for reading the blog, and come on over to the website and have a look around!

End of the year!

As we enter the week of Christmas, I like to stop and reflect on the year past.  And wow it has been a great year!  The Kord blessed my garden, he has provided in so many ways for my family.  God is so good.  I am looking forward to a good 2015.  There will be some changes this year for me and my family, but hopefully y'all will continue to follow us here at my blog.  I am building a web sight to support our sustainablility and I am trying to expand the direction of Ryan's remodeling.  So please say a prayer for me and my family I wish you a Merry Christmas!! I will not post anything new until the first of the year!!! Thank you for your support!! 

Stay sustainable my friend!!

Making money!

Part of being sustainable is finding ways to make money out side of the norm.  We found a 120 year old house place for free.  Some one wanted it tore down, and that is all it was worth, so we, my wife and 3 kids went and recoverd what we could use out of it.  Reduce, reuse, and recycle!  So you may ask, what does that have to do with making money!?  Well my boy An I started milling it down to make farm house tables out of it.  And man it is pretty wood!!  Hopefully we will finish milling tomorrow. You may be better at IT stuff or finances! Who know, just do something on your own!! 

Yum yum!!

Wow , God is so good! My wife, Teresa , just fixed spaghetti. In that delicious plate of spaghetti she use deer meat in place of beef. BOOM! That was good. We ate super fresh. The deer was eating ryegrass about 7 days ago.  We skinned it butchered it ourselves, so I  know that there was no preservatives or hormones in the meat, you can't do that when you buy it from the store! The only problem is I wish that y'all, the reader, could taste it!!

I know that some folks are thinking that it can't taste that good, but my wife has some fantastic recipes that was handed down to her and ones that she has come up with. So be looking for a general cook book put out by Teresa Ryan in the near future! 

Deer meat is good to eat!!!

Well well well!!  We have not purchased any meat from the box stores because of the outragouce prices.   I have hunted to no avail!! However God likes to provide for me by humbling me!! Lol.  My sister killed a deer that she did not need so she gave it to me, and then my brother-n-law's dad killed one that he did not need and he gave it to me.  So my wife and I skinned and butchered these deer.  We have put up approximately 100 lbs of deer over the last 2 nights. The best we can figure we have approximately $300 worth of ground, roast, stew meat and steaks. God is good in how he aka was provides for me and my family.  

Uh oh!!

I did not kill a deer tonight!!  I will try again tomorrow .  Freezer is bare I got to tighten up!! Lol

Muzzleloading

Well I missed 2 deer with my bow this year due to jitters and the "flinch" move the deer use to evade and oncoming arrow like an f-18 fighter plane avoiding an oncoming missle!  Ha, but now it is the early primitive season, so I can take my muzzleloader and prayerfully put some meat in the freezer.  If I do, I will post some pictures and and article about it.  We plan on grinding this deer down for ground meet, with ground beef at 4$ per pound were we are at, we sure could use the deer!! So be watching for our adventure into grinding our own meat.