We’re still hurting, but getting back to doing

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Will and I are still much feeling the effects of our fall off the roof, but we're keeping on plugging along. Today, I'm washing clothes. As it's raining, I'm cheating and using our propane...

Q and A: dwarf fruit trees and refrigerator pickles

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Dwarf fruit trees I want to plant some dwarf fruit trees and I can't find an Arkansas Nursery which sells dwarf trees that are good for the Arkansas Climate. Also could you help with a...

The frogs are peeping

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On the very last day of April, both the woods frogs and spring peepers started singing all over our beaver ponds and in the creek. Usually the woods frogs, who sound sort of like...

We finally finished our new pasture fence

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Two days ago, we finished our new pasture fence and moved our very large steers from the goat pasture over to their new summer home. I was a little nervous, as cattle sometimes get...

When you live in the backwoods, you live by the weather

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The first thing we do every morning is turn on our little weather radio to see what the coming weather is going to be (or do to us!). And by that, we plan our...