Homestead doings and Mom
Thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes for Mom and us too. She is doing a little better, but I had to place her in a nursing home Friday. She just...
Broccoli; king of cool weather!
Because we've had record cool weather this summer, our cole crops are doing fantastic! We've been eating broccoli, kohlrabi, onions, and carrots nearly every day. And to keep up with the broccoli, I've been...
Weeds, weeds, and more weeds
With hot weather plus rain every couple of days, our weeds are having a field day. We've been working hard to keep them under control. I've been running the smaller rototiller through the corn...
August is here and harvesting has begun in earnest
On Friday, I cut all the broccoli that was ready, blanched it, and quickly strained it out of the hot water and dumped it into ice water. After draining well, I packed it into...
Did you ever want to throw your computer out the window?
Well, yesterday I came so close! I began to write my blog after morning chores. Simple enough, right? Well, not so much. When I went to transfer my Montana trip photos from my camera...