Forest Escape a chosen path

In my forest escape homestead office I had lots of counter space and was very organized. That was two years ago. Today, the supplies, books, products I make, wires and cables, as well as electronic devices are unmanageable. I had stress and felt claustrophobic! Like any horrible task, it has to be broken down into smaller manageable tasks, to handle one step at a time. My Office Part 1 gets about 1/2 of the space under control. I am organized, I have counter space, and it is clean. I will be able to handle office planning, scheduling, finance, teaching, printing, and sewing projects now. And, I have so much more light! Homestead struggles are more than just in the garden, greenhouse, forest, or chicken coop!

It is time in the forest escape to start canning and freezing fresh fruits and vegetables! Pizza sauce is the first project! Why is a spider in the communication tower, 50 feet off the ground? Tomato plants need bandages. It is much colder and I see fall leaves appearing!

I found the chicken coop door unsecured and then I watched the security camera footage! Cats in a basket, cicadas on the house; the buck, his doe and their fawn. Many pretty flowers growing in the forest escape homestead! Weather is cooler and everyone is more comfortable. Autumn is coming soon!

Enjoying the green of the woods and sunshine, giving the swimming pool to the chickens on a super hot day, cleaning the coop to give the corn some more nitrogren, and thorny briars, as well as vines, are invading the house and attaching to outdoor wiring! I am using Tractor Supply soft leather gloves, Dollar General trimmers, and Winchester shooting safety glasses to do battle! All the fun at our Kentucky forest escape homestead!

Quiet time in the forest escape allows us to write books and read books. As an author, I know Christian children's books are important for our kids and grandkids. Telling children the truth about the Bible, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is important. Helping kids use biblical principles for everyday life helps them cope with problems. Pages for children also have adult Scripture at the bottom of each page. Vocabulary words help for review. See the God Really Loves You Book Series on http://inspirationalchristiangifts.com and http://godreallylovesyou.com today! Save money by avoiding the middleman and buy directly from the printer IngramSpark. Share with parents, grandparents, libraries and churches!

There is always something to repair! Today, it is the poultry waterer that needs to be replaced, if possible! Also, the pop-out door is needing to be fixed, as the chickens broke off the door molding and the chain that holds the door open. Rowdy chickens! In the forest escape homestead we use various video equipment including the head mount, chest mount,selfie stick and tripod, as well as a clip on mic and camera mic and various lights. It is fun to see which piece of equipment works best. I have helpers today!

We picked up the normal 4 bags of poultry feed and 2 bags of scratch, only to find the wrong feed in the process of transporting it to the greenhouse and feed buckets on a 94F day! All while hurrying to beat the rain, of course. While shutting up the coop, gathering eggs, and turning on the radio to deter the raccoons, the nighttime spider is the finishing touch to a fun day on the forest escape homestead! LOL

We had torrential downpours X3 and strong winds, so a lot of plant damage, as well as limbs down from trees! The roosters have long spurs or sharp spurs, so we needed to decide what to do. The one rooster fell off a roosting bar and hung upside down for a while. That made me realize the spur needed attention. Should we remove the spurs or trim them? Also there is more Blu-Kote on me than on the hens, so what is better - the spray can or pump bottle? See all the fun on the forest escape homestead!

Our forest escape garden was planted late in the ground, but our soil is really the issue, so plants have to be fed a lot, and with the hot summer with little rain, growth is really stunted. We are finally getting corn tassles, small tomatoes, beans and cayennes! Lots of flowers, but little fruit so to speak. Along the way, we encounter all kinds of creepy crawlies! With the iNaturalist Seek app we can finally know their names. Each raised garden bed is shown, as well as the layout with the greenhouse and the chicken coop. Working hard on the homestead to make plants grow, despite squirrels, moles and raccoons.

Taking a Gator ride in the forest escape at our homestead. We took our sweet dog, Nightmare, with us. We got him at about two years old, as a rescue dog from an animal shelter, and Nightmare was his name. They tried to tell us his name was Night, but he didn't seem to respond to it, so they admitted his name was Nightmare. He answers to just Night, now. I think of him as Knight. Like knight in shining armor. He is a sweetie and he is now 13 years old. He likes the John Deere Gator rides! See our paths in the woods, rough terrain, and all the trees!

Plants need food, so chicken tea is a free solution. Mixing up batches of chicken tea for each raised garden bed. We have very interesting forest escape homestead invaders! Morning glories wild or planted are so pretty! Loud morning meeting in chicken land. Finally got a lot of rain!

We never know what will happen in the night at the forest escape homestead! A night raider makes a mess! Caugh in the act on two camera systems! My morning suprise until I watch the cameras. The brave deer hopes to be friends with black kitty. A young buck is with his doe. The poor tomato plants need prayers! Pretty and funny content!

If you have always wanted to write a book, you can start today! A forest escape homestead is a perfect place to start writing, but you can write from wherever you are. It is so easy to get started. Step-by-step you can see the process I use to write Christian children's books! Use print-on-demand (POD) to afford publishing a book without a publishing house fee, literally for free with IngramSpark, using their free ISBN and upload your book title. See my books on the GodReallyLovesYou.com web site. Earn money doing what you love. Write your book. Illustrate your book. You have the opportunity to sell your books all around the world. Christian children's books are important, and they help children cope with a crazy world. Get started today: you have a story to write! Buyers have given nice reviews of my God Really Loves You Book Series. I am happy to share my stories with children around the world!

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In the forest escape homestead we have a starving kitty that visits often and he can eat 5 breakfasts and still be hungry! We finally got rain for the garden, and the lilies are super pretty! The Princess Tree is huge, plantains have a use, and morning glories are growing. Greenhouse plants need to go in the garden, and blueberries are bearing fruit.

Our forest escape is truly God's country, with a mama deer kissing her fawn. We are blessed to see such beauty! On the homestead, we have a blown out garden hose but it has a lifetime warranty from Ace Hardware. Harris Diatomaceous Earth is a great treatment for potato bugs. Giving the chickens back their swimming pool, and more!

Trying out the chest mount for the iPhone camera to see if this will be a good choice for making videos! In the forest escape we have morning chores on the homestead. Feeding chickens, checking berry growth, watering the greenhouse plants, filling the chicken water buckets, and watering the garden, as well as noting pests and damage to address. Birds are always singing in the forest, too!

A solemn time in the forest escape homestead. I was going to delete a video I shot with the music playing in the background in the greenhouse, but it was foreshadowing something I could never imagine. We must pay attention to small things when they happen. When We All Get to Heaven was playing on the radio, and three days later our beloved father passed away. When I went to assemble the video, this clip played and I realized how important it was/is. This video is celebrating the deer eating, trying to see hummingbirds, watching the plants growing, and making the daily bread, as well as hearing the music - and cherishing the memories. We have the assured hope of heaven in our salvation through Christ, by the grace of God. When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be, as the lyrics say, written by Eliza E. Hewitt, and published in 1898.

The head mount for wearing the iPhone taking video is a new challenge! I wore my iPhone on my forehead and took a video walking in the woods. It was 92F in our Kentucky forest escape, and so sunny! I didn't use Deep Woods Off or wear my socks over my leggings and I was very sorry! I had so many turkey mites all over my ankles. The backhoe is back up by our home, thankfully without doing any wheelies. Discussing wild grapevines and ferns, firewood needing to be cut up for winter heat, as well as talking about deep ditches, trying to handle road water runoff and erosion on our homestead.

It was a very big surprise to see a new visitor at our forest escape homestead! A black bear came to visit us, and circled our area three different times, returning to smell the garbage can, the charcoal grill and the tree garbage. The bear was not afraid of security lights, people, or the sound of our voices, or the radio playing in the greenhouse. He was a brave bear, but he has moved on to a different area of the forest now! Luckily, the chickens were locked in the coop at this time of night. It was 8 PM when the black bear first came to visit us! Strawberries, black raspberries and blackberries are all growing nicely! The black bear stole a contractor bag full of papers and cans, so it really didn't actually get food from that - but it is amazing to watch him haul that giant bag away into the forest!

Let's focus on the good things in life! If you feel down, maybe you are not noticing all the beauty around you. Maybe you are getting information overload with negative news. Take a walk in nature and get a break from society. God loves us and He made wonderful things for us. If you need more time in nature relaxing and being with God, maybe it is time for a lifestyle change! Forest Escape a chosen path dot com has information about my book, sharing our journey to following God's path for our life. I'm hoping to share the peace and love of God, through these videos. The book gives you practical steps to take to move to a forest escape! Watch deer, hear birds singing, see the wild turkey and the snail, as well as sunset, sunrise, the moon, aurora borealis, solar eclipse and so much more!

Chicken tea is a superfood for your garden! Why should you have chickens today? Basically you have four reasons to raise chickens, as they give you eggs and meat, and you can barter or trade with them, and they give you natural fertilizer for your plants! Learn how to make chicken tea and easily dispense it when needed. Forest escape homestead hacks include tree garbage! Noisy roosters always have something to say during any homesteading activity. Which rooster is the noisy one today? Make unlimited free fertilizer, instead of paying $10 to $12 for each bottle of liquid fertilizer concentrate at the store.

If you are homesteading in a forest escape, you have to consider whether or not you want free-ranging chickens. With bird flu and other threats like coyotes and raccoons as predators, an enclosure keeps the flock safe. Build your own chicken run on your coop. Watch the DIY Build a Chicken Coop video to see the first part. This is the second part, with a focus on building the chicken run. Decide if you want an 8' wide run that is 8' long or 16' long. Do you want to partition your flock? Do you have too many roosters? This concept design for a chicken run may help you decide what to do. Learn from mistakes and improvements! Also, we have a chicken cam! LOL

Simple idea for the homestead! DIY raised garden beds that will last quite a few years. Build your own raised beds, and also see what we did. What is a good approach - and what should have been done differently. Water eroding soil can be stopped. A hardware cloth bottom, and a rectangular design might work for you. Which wood lasts the longest? How wide should a raised garden bed be? Should you use weed block in a bed? This year, we are done fighting the weeds. Think about what design is best for your forest escape garden bed, and then have fun building it!

Build your own forest escape greenhouse with an affordable and simple concept design. Every homestead needs the ability to grow food, and indoors could be a good alternative or addition to a traditional garden. Find out what the perfect greenhouse plastic is and which ones to avoid! Use webbing and cushion tape for a long-wearing fit! Learn what we did - what was right and what was wrong. A good type of flooring is discussed, as well. Start growing plants earlier in the year - and longer in the year - with a greenhouse!