We finally got a little rain
We finally got a decent shower after being in a drought for more than two months. But, thankfully, we have water and have been able to water from two wells and our irrigation system....
Q and A: Compost freezing, Tattler lids, and dirty windows
Compost freezing
We are in Colorado near the mountains. We have many bags of excess compost/steer manure from when we purchased and had trees planted this summer. If we leave the bags outside (where it...
With winter definitely here we are planning our gardens
We've got serious snow on the ground and temps which are destined to see below zero this week, but Will and I are hard at work planning our next year's gardens. Like many of...
Sorry I didn’t blog Monday
We were hugely busy getting ready for me to take a two day (or more) jaunt to Mayo Clinic with our carpenter friend, Tom, who was due for his once-every-three-year checkups. It's a six...
Our homestead has grown another 40 acres
The forty acres adjacent to ours (down what we call the Wolf Road, an old lumbering trail off our driveway) was for sale by the Potlatch Timber Company. And, as David needed a place...