Beautiful, warm fall day
I just took a cruise around the gardens and really enjoyed the fragrance of fall leaves. The maples are turning color and other trees and plants are starting to show some fall colors. It's...
We knew rain was coming so we’ve been working extra hard
We live every day by our weather radio. We listen to it first thing every morning and the last thing in the evening. In this way, we have a pretty good handle on what...
Summer’s in full swing
While Will is busy flat-siding the heavy support beams for the barn on our new Hud-Son sawmill, I'm busy making strawberry jam and syrup from our strawberries we planted two years ago. Last year,...
It’s snowing — again
Well, the beavers must have known something because it's snowing again, right after another seven inches of new snow! Will plowed the driveway yesterday and it looks like it'll be a repeat tomorrow. (Was...
We needed a bridge…and found an old mobile home
Our land is a rectangular 80 acres of woods. Unfortunately, about 35 acres of that is across a creek, dotted with beaver ponds. The only way you can access it is by bulldozer or...