The last campfire of the year was for burning my cast iron pans

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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!

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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

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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

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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,...

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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...