Smiley Acres Soapworks and Homestead

04/21/2025

Three weeks ago I set a *few* dozen eggs in hopes of having my traditional Easter morning hatch. I’d say it went pretty well.

04/05/2025

Seedlings are coming along nicely!

03/14/2025

Howlin’ at the moon!

03/09/2025

All I can say is that Mama Bleck understands exactly what it means to be a mom to twins.

02/25/2025

Last few weeks haven’t been all sunshine and rainbows, figuratively. And non-figuratively, it actually snowed 22/24 days in February. But these happy little goat hops are about as close to sunshine as you can get.

Meet Princess Ilene the Adorable. (Or PITA for short.)

01/24/2025

The quail covey got a little mealworm treat to help get them through the cold. Sound on to hear the happy chirps!

01/16/2025

I just did a test run of some shirts for friends and family and I love how happy they turned out.

Is there any interest in doing a larger order? Cost would be very reasonable - supplies and a little time. Drop a comment or send a message if you’d want one!

11/26/2024

Garden helpers and cold weather means lots of muddy laundry. And yeah that’s the manure pile (it’s fully composted) or as we like to call it, “poop mountain.”

Thank the Good Lord for the sanitize cycle and oxiclean.

10/29/2024

My humble popcorn harvest. I knew going into it that if I planted all my different types of popcorn together they would cross-pollinate. And they sure did!

10/11/2024

10/10/2024

Starting to look like fall 🍁🍁🍁

09/13/2024

Just a quick morning harvest.