Finally, I’m canning carrots
After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and getting them packaged up. Then, I noticed several varieties of...
Our nice weather continues
With this latest spell of warmer fall weather, we've kept busy. Will was so late getting into the hayfields this summer, due to the crazy rainy spring/early summer, he's late getting wood into the...
We’re enjoying our spell of sunny, warm weather
Nice weather makes everything go faster and nicer on the homestead, especially this time of the year when we're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. There's so much to do before...
Boy, was it cold last night
We had less than 26 degrees F early this morning. Luckily, we'd been keeping a close eye on the weather forecast and were prepared. Will lit the heaters in both hoop houses, where our...
It feels like fall
All of a sudden, a cold front hit us with highs in the low fifties F plus very high wind. Boy was it cold! And, unfortunately, our son, Bill and his family, were scheduled...