Leavey Homestead Farm

07/15/2024

We need volunteers! There are many disabled, older people, single moms, etc, in our community who have no insurance or family help, in our community, who need help. If you are willing to volunteer dragging brush, and or have a chain saw and are willing to cut down trees, please comment here. Let me see if we can come up with some sort of community board to coordinate people in need with neighbors who can volunteer time.

07/12/2024

Good morning from Freeport, how did we get to Friday already? This week has been such a blur! We have experienced so many wonderful people volunteering time to help others in the communities, this week, all of our city employees, and so many others, working long hours, I just feel so blessed to be a part of this coastal community!
Our city had our first delivery of water yesterday, for the pod which will run again today at the municipal park, we also had a great group of busses that pulled into town for cooling stations, these are available again today from 9-6, and we still need volunteers to host those for today. They are located at Freeport Elementary, Freeport intermediate, Velasco Elementary and the municipal park. Thank you so much to the hosts who worked yesterday!
We have more businesses opening up every day, as utilities are restored!

Frank and our extended family of worker bees got Sarah’s fence up and secured back in place, and Angel Demain-Leavey got electricity back to her house, when she got home, she found her sweet turtle basking under her heat lamp! I may just go take a warm shower at her house tonight! My sister, who did get electricity yesterday, lost her ac with all the on and off connecting other people, but hopefully she will get that repaired today.
Today is another long day of repairs, setting the fence posts at Angels house, to repair her fence. And assessing other damages there. Still lots of work to be done!

07/11/2024

Good morning, from Freeport! I am thankful this morning that we had so many linemen get here yesterday to work on our electricity! The grid on this side of town is for the most part energized! One step forward with getting electricity restored! Thankful we had so many people come out yesterday to help Sarah Felder work on her fence so Amethyst can have her yard back! Our city is working feverishly to set up a pod for water and ice, hopefully coming today! Chris Motley who is coordinating ems, is doing a great job, not only getting that taken care of, but coordinating with centerpoint on the electricity, and so much more!!! The city is getting its footing as more have access to internet!(how did we ever survive without phones in our hands and access to everyone, everywhere?) We now have consistent cell service, with access to internet, and more gas stations and food places have opened back up! We had two hot meals yesterday. There’s lots still to do to recover our town, let’s all try to be patient, and check on our neighbors! We have volunteers coming into town on Sunday, if anyone still needs help with trees or debris, let me know.

07/10/2024

We have info on a pod coming to our area if you can volunteer to help distribute if you would post on here and I’ll post again when we know when it’s going to be set up. We don’t know how many people we are going to need yet.

07/01/2023

In our day the cake was an animal cake made from a tiny little book that had clever ways to cut up rectangle and round cakes, and it was passed around the neighborhood and church.

And that was a hell of a party 🤣🤣🤣

05/15/2023

This is one of my favorite daylilies, I really like the ones with ruffled edges!

05/12/2023

One of my favorite hibiscus! It’s a Hollywood hybrid, but I don’t know the name!

10/22/2022

These would be my suggestions for the most worry free and easy houseplants!!!

10/15/2022

These cooler days are prompting all our flowers to bloom more often, these are a couple of hibiscus that are blooming on our garden. The one on the right is a Cajun hibiscus, I can’t remember the name, the other is a double peach.

10/14/2022

After a long hot summer and lots of babying, My pink plumeria finally bloomed! We are finally home and I’ll get back into fall plants and preparations this next week!

09/30/2022

For those with a Farmhouse style home, think about mixing mums, and grasses in a mixed planter like these! Purple fountain grass is great, crotons, even yellow, orange and red lantana! There are also some great coneflowers out at some of the big box stores, now. In our area, we are really lucky that a lot of our summer flowers will bloom way into fall! Stay tuned, tomorrow we are going to discuss dividing mums!

Sharing last years Fall porch because my porch still has ferns, geraniums and all the flowers I got in the Spring still thriving! What do you do with your ferns? Keep them all year? I know when winter comes around I will not want to go out in the shop to water them so I think it may be a waste for me to do that but I’m interested if anyone ever has?!

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09/28/2022

Another porch showcasing fall color, look at the dark colored coleus on the left. Stacked pumpkins, and lots of pops of color in mums! They blend with so many fall plants. Croton is another great fall plant, lots of color with no blooms!