On our last “good” day, we hurried to get another load of wood in
According to the weather forecast, our above normal temperatures and clear days are about to come to an end. Snow and colder temperatures are on the way. So while I hurried to can up...
Between raindrops, Will gets the tiller fixed
We've been having a real rainy mid-May with flash flood warnings on the weather radio nearly every day. Luckily when we picked out our homestead land it was on high ground with absolutely no...
Ah, Spring!
Today it's 65 degrees and sunny without much wind so it sure feels great. Will's working on the barn, getting ready to put up our home-cut siding. Yesterday he worked on the sawmill all...
We still have 9 baby turkeys and we’re starting to roof the storage building
Despite heavy, and frequent, rains, which often spell doom to baby turkeys, our mama turkey still has nine babies in our orchard. They're feathering out now and getting adventurous, which drives their mother nuts....
Q and A: sweet potatoes and chicken feed
Sweet potatoes
I left some sweet potatoes in the garden, thinking since they were under ground, I could just harvest them as I needed them, regardless of freezing. Wrong! I didn't put any straw on...