My name is Leigh and I am the lead chaos creator here on Steel Raven Farms. We blog about homesteading, goating, gardening, cooking and ways to make life a little easier in the slow lane.
It's That Time Of Year
Hey Y'all! Anyone else get overwhelmed at the end of every year? Every November we start gathering up all of our expenses for the year. And every year, it's shocking how much we spend on this farm. Now, I know what you are thinking, Leigh, why don't you just input all your income and expenses every month like a normal person? Well, apparently I'm not normal because I rarely get my expenses and income put in during a regular month. Nope. My brain is all over the place all the time. So every November, I start printing out all the bank and credit card statements. I go through all of our income sources for the farm and blog and start getting those in order. Because come January 1st, I start the process of getting all of them put into my Schedule F Tracker. Funny enough, the most tedious process is not inputting them into the tracker. That's the easiest part! You can see in the video below how easy it is to get all the expenses and income put in and how it is totaled at the end. So for now, I will sit here stewing in how much I don't want to do this, all while knowing that it really isn't that bad. Maybe next year I'll be better at doing it every month.... I can always hope! |
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My name is Leigh and I am the lead chaos creator here on Steel Raven Farms. We blog about homesteading, goating, gardening, cooking and ways to make life a little easier in the slow lane.
Hey guys! I just wanted to check in and see how ya'lls August is going! I know a lot of people have kids back in school, the garden is wild and canning/ preservation season is chugging right along. Life is crazy and the blessing of overabundance may not seem much like a blessing. Trust me when I say, we are right there with you! I don't know how it's been in other parts of the country, but we had about 6wks of drought followed by about 3wks of straight rain. My tomatoes are toast. We tried to...
If you are one of the many new goat owners that are now struggling with how to care for your new baby, I'm here to help! When we purchased our goats, we were totally clueless. To the point that we had no idea that one of our goats was full of worms before we even brought him home! Hindsight is 20/20 and we should have known then, but we didn't. And our lack of knowledge cost us a our first baby. Since then, it has been my mission to learn everything that I could about these animals. And after...
Hey y'all, As I was getting to work in the greenhouse today, I was feeling inspired by a bunch of volunteer tomatoes in my soil. We are talking about 50 volunteer tomatoes. * I may have grabbed soil from an old tomato bed....ooops* Anyways, I wanted to share the bounty with you guys! I can't send everyone tiny baby tomato plants because the shipping alone would probably cripple us. BUT I can give you guys half off my entire store! **I need to add that this sale is only on my convert kit store...