The last campfire of the year was for burning my cast iron pans
We love sitting around the campfire at night. There's just something comforting about those flickering flames and the smell of pine smoke. Maybe it's the Native in us? But this time, I had more...
Will wins the beaver war!
After weeks of persistence, and tearing out several inches of the beaver dam at least twice a day, and tearing out several inches of re-built dam, Will has gotten the water level in the...
Grandson Drew is up from St. Paul
He brought a load of his things up to the house David built. David and his family bought a house in Chisholm, a town about 20 miles southwest of us, making it closer to...
Q and A: tallow candles, canning tomato soup, and apple trees
Tallow candles
Have you ever made candles from rendered tallow? I made 3 container candles in small jars as an experiment. They looked beautiful, but they only burned for about 20 minutes until the wicks...
I hope to see many of you at the Self Reliance Expo in Irving,...
I'm madly trying to get ready to leave for four days and this is a bad time to do that with all the planting I'm supposed to be doing. But, heck, it'll get done...