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Meet Our Hedgehog, Paprika!

August 11, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Have you ever met our hedgehog, Paprika? If not, we thought we’d introduce you to her, today. If you have, you might want to see how much she’s grown! 
You’ll just want to let all of the photos load, so you can see if she does indeed have some serious cute-factor, or if it’s just us.
So give it a moment.
We think you’re going to love her.

P is for Paprika, of course.
And here she is . . . .
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Filed Under: Home Page, Life In General, Our Hedgehog, The Big Picture Tagged With: exotic-pets, hedgehog, hedgehogs, nocturnal-animals, nocturnal-pets, pets, unique-pets

We Lost Our First Chicken to a Predator | The Interesting Story of When and How

April 20, 2017 By Laura 2 Comments

DISCLAIMER:
This post was published with special permission from one of our two teen triplet boys, Shane, who is featured in this real life story of ours quite a bit.  He read it and approved it.  I have *always* checked with my kids before sharing their business or photos anywhere online. It’s just the right thing to do.  –  Laura

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It finally happened on a late Saturday afternoon, this past December, actually.  After keeping chickens for nearly 2 and 1/2 years, a predator finally got one. And it was all kinds of sad. Of all of the ways such a loss could have gone down, and any chicken it could have gone down with, it was about as sad as it could get, if you ask us.

(Just a picture of our chickens from last year, for your enjoyment.)

Before we tell the sad little tale, we have to say first, that we still maintain that our predator deterrent set-up has been working very well! It was never meant to be, nor going to be, predator-proof.  But it has definitely done it’s job well in serving it’s intended purpose, in deterring hawks, especially.  It was only a matter of time though, that a more unusual situation with a predator would arise, and well….that time came.

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Filed Under: Life In General, Our Chickens, Parenting, The Big Picture, The Homestead Tagged With: chicken-keeping, chicken-loss, chicken-predator-deterrent, chickens, hawk-vs-chicken, kids-growing-up, protecting-chickens-from-predators

The Way to Easter in the Heart & Home

April 8, 2017 By Laura 1 Comment

Whatever seasons or holidays we are in the midst of, they are most always reflected in a little bit of decor details around our home. I’ve just always enjoyed the changing of seasons, the anticipations of family holiday celebrations around the bend, and weaving that inspiration into the fabric of my homemaking.

But increasingly over the years I have found, that the way to Easter in the heart and home, doesn’t come so easily.
I don’t want to bring out the Easter specific elements of our decor in the weeks before Easter.  I don’t feel drawn to embracing that beautiful spirit of Easter joy just yet, that I know is on it’s way, come Easter Sunday morning. I don’t jump on the anticipation of excitement, as I do with any other approaching season or holiday.
But I do know why.
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Filed Under: Celebrations, Faith, Faith/ Catholic, Holidays, Home Decor, Into the Light; The Series, Seasonal Home decor, SPRING Home Decor, The Big Picture, The Homestead Tagged With: Catholic-blogs, Catholic-families, Catholics, Christians, Communion, Easter, Easter-Sunday, Good-Friday, Holy Week, Holy-Saturday, Holy-Thursday, Jesus-resurrection, Lent, the-Eucharist

Details About the New House of Joyful Noise Rooster

March 19, 2017 By Laura 2 Comments

Just a quick post today, to share with you all a few details about the new House of Joyful Noise rooster, since we mentioned we would tell you a little more about it in this come-back post.

When I got to thinking about freshening up our blog and giving it a bit of a new look, for some reason the idea of incorporating a rooster with a fancy tail, popped into my head. And once it did, I couldn’t let it go! We love roosters, and their big fancy tails anyway, and it felt like it fit well, because they are certainly farm-ish enough. We do keep chickens, and have certainly dealt with our share of roosters. We had a big and beautiful rooster with a fancy tail for awhile, until he died unexpectedly. We miss him on the one hand, and he took real good care of his hen girls.  But on the other hand, he was getting [Read more…]

Filed Under: Crafts & Creations, Faith, Faith/ Catholic, Home Page, Life In General, The Big Picture Tagged With: Cursillo, Karla-Dornacher, rooster-art, rooster-paintings

We Are Back! Come See Our Brand New Look!

February 20, 2017 By Laura 7 Comments

It’s been 7 months today, since our last post, while I worked on a great big work project. But we are back now, ready to really rock and roll again! And with a whole new brand design look, too! What do you think? Do you love our [Read more…]

Filed Under: Faith/ Catholic, Home Page, The Big Picture Tagged With: Catholic-blogs, Catholic-family-blogs, chickens, crafts, creative-blogs, family-blogs, farmhouse-style, home-projects, homeschooling, idea-blogs, inspiration, natural living, recipes

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