Gettin’ Dirty With It

One of the keys to building a homestead is that nothing, and I mean NOTHING, stays clean after the 5 minutes you spent cleaning it. Between all the animals and activities there is constantly dirt flying around and landing on everything.

Often times all you see on Facebook and Instagram are the pristine, staged, white pictures or videos. What you don’t see very often are the candid, unplanned, dirty images… like this one…

The puppy got into who knows what and was covered in it! He had to have a bath pronto!! It isn’t a high quality picture by any means but it sure is candid and cute.

Or there is this one…

You can hardly see the chicken in there among the kitchen scraps, failed garden produce, and other compost items. But Pola is such a funny chicken that I couldn’t help but take the picture super fast before she took off.

There is also this bit of a mess….

8 birds standing around our junk wood pile, next to an old kitchen cabinet, next to a bunch of tree limbs we fell, and a broken deck chair that I nap in.

Everything is dirty, out of focus, and a straight up hot mess. When I first started blogging, some odd years ago, I constantly saw the average bloggers sharing reminders that the life we are seeing them share is the glam and the glory. It is most definitely not the every day look. As I gained a little bit of traction outside of the 4 friends and 5 family members that wanted to follow me, I promised myself that I would never be like that.

I will always show the glitter. Now whether or not that glitter is from the sparkly pieces of dirt or from intentional eye shadow, I will leave up to you to decide 😉

But I will never apologize for you seeing the best of me or the less great side. I will never share the reminders that social media is a high light reel. I will always be honest. I will always show you real life, good and bad.

Fair warning though, there is a lot of dirt involved in my life of living, homesteading, and being me. So, if you stick around for more than a day or two, you will learn that I love to be in the dirt.