Lemke Homestead

A Homesteading Momma Trying to Learn a Thing or Two

Gardening

Would you believe I’ve written this dang post 3 different times? Three! Huge thanks to WordPress for not saving the draft like I told it too. Some my garden updates for this month aren’t so depressing this time, YAY! My…

Life

One blog post ago, I wrote about my experience with Infertility, and you now know this is my 5th pregnancy loss. This time around, I was given, a “Miscarriage Kit” What is in this kit? We’ll I’ll tell you. This…

Life

Growing up, I always knew two things. 1. I wanted to be happily married and 2. I wanted more than one child. Being an only child was great at times, but other times it sucked. I didn’t want my child…

Cooking/Recipes

July 28th marked my husbands 32nd birthday. And its a long standing tradition that you pick dinner on your birthday. Daniel has a favorite I make, and its called Bacon, Cabbage, Rice. I learned the recipe from a friend of…

Cooking/Recipes

Yet another recipe from my old cookbooks. This one I marked because I remember this dish fondly. Every year for birthdays or special occasions, we had a restraunt we would frequent as a family. And one thing we’d always get…

Gardening

This heatwave has put quite the bump in the road for my garden. At first, i noticed it was just my little flower sprouts that didn’t like it. That I could understand, I started them pretty late. But then I…

Sewing

When I got home there was a button on my desk. But not just any button. This was a small button from a man’s shirt. I recognized it from my husbands flannel. One of his thicker flannel shirts. My husband…

Cooking/Recipes

Every Sunday we have dinner with my mom. And its the perfect time for me to try a new recipe. Or in this instance, a new old recipe. Were taking a look again at the Good Housekeeping Cookbook. I was…

Cooking/Recipes

Ingredients: I just put everything in a Gallon sized Ziplock bag, and shook it like crazy to get everything mixed together. When your ready to whip up a batch of Brownies, your amount of ingredient is dependent on what size…

DIYLife

Times are tough; you can either spend your time crying about how stressed you are, or you could look for a solution. I decided instead of ‘surviving’, I was going to find ways to use everything I do have to…