#boarfeathers

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The lights are my favorite part of this season✨

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For Inktober this year I’ll be using Keymonster’s Botanimal list from Twitter!

Day 1: daisy kitten

Happy first day of Halloween everyone!

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Hello everyone! It feels so good to be back once again and to see you all. Welcome those who are long time fans and welcome to those who are just now finding me. Our time may not be long but lets make the best of it shall we? Your Halloween Princess has returned!~

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Ok! I guess we should start our first post with introductions/explanations about our project!

To start, we are Jenna of Boarfeathers, and Alee of Sargassos here on Tumblr. The hyperlinks go to our respective art and nonesense blogs here. We live together in a very small mountain town usually found right around the L in Colorado. While we aren't really a PROPER homestead, we are working towards getting a place where we can have the space to do all we'd love to do. For now, we're doing a little rural town homesteading, and honing what skills we already have as we do it.

While this is all a learning process, it's not entirely new to us that we decided to jump into on a whim. Alee grew up on a small ranch in Arizona and has been working with horses, cows, and dogs her whole life, on top of learning gardening and small home farming from her mum. Jenna has been gardening with her parents since she was small, and has raised rabbits and chickens in the past. Sure, some parts of it are new, like the beekeeping (which we failed at our very first attempt at) and the smithing, but hey, it is all part of the learning process here!

Besides the two of us, our little house is home to:

Alee's dog Tsavo, a labrador/doberman (we think?) mutt who is too smart for his own darn good,

Berlin and Pippin, a pair of male californian (again, we think?) rabbits who were rescued after being dumped by their original owners (don't do this, people. Domestic rabbits were not meant to be released into the wild. NO pet is.)

Six full grown chickens of vicious and troublesome personality.

And eight 4 week old chicks who will hopefully never meet the cranky hens (and will hopefully have very different personalities, if we're lucky)

We also have a beehive, but it currently stands empty. Unfortunately our location doesn't produce very many NATURAL bee flowers in town, and our garden is just not quite up to par to sustain bees yet. That is one MASSIVE project for summer 2017. Perrenials EVERYWHERE.

Spring of 2017 is upon us, and lets face it.....it's still snowing in Colorado. But no matter! There are projects to be started, and projects to finish! We have a batch of crab-apple jelly to be made soon, chicks that are growing up WAY fast, and garden beds to be laid out! Alee is determined to put a hammock in the front yard if it kills her. Not to mention we kind of just turned our kitchen into a makeshift greenhouse to start some flowers and herbs for the coming season.

By all means, come hang with us on our random adventures in rural homesteading! Comments are welcome, heck, any advice is greatly appreciated! Questions are also welcome, though we can't guarantee we'll have the answer. We're still learning as we go ourselves!

Posting more soon, cheers!

Boarfeathers and Sargassos-Moose

Photo: Our dog, Tsavo, loves hanging out with the ladies.

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This is it! The final set for FebROARy! I made it!

Shoutout to my buddy, @boarfeathers and her kitteh, my fur nephew, Brân. Opener of closed doors, enemy of house plants, stealer of my jewelry, and I’m not even kidding, he hides things in the dog’s bed and frames poor Tsavo for his crimes. We love him. The freaking pest 🐱

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I have a problem.

🌱 A plant problem 🪴

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Once upon several years ago, I did a couple drawings of @boarfeathers, @starmuttani and my sonas as random cat and dog breeds we all got from cheesy online quizzes.

Today a “which horse is your horoscope” came across my Twitter feed and I was obligated to continue the tradition.

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My friend @boarfeathers spent the last year building a boat with her dad, and this summer, she’s taking lessons so she can sail it. Unfortunately, we had to reschedule her first lesson do to an annoying lack of wind.

Her instructor is a short old fella with a great big mustache and this was my first impression of him.