Q and A: canning enchilada sauce, tornado clucker plucker, using a steam juicer, bringing...

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Canning enchilada sauce You mentioned canning enchilada sauce in your blog today. I searched the archives and found a recipe you posted in 2009. Could...

Roses in the middle of a Minnesota winter?

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Yep. You see, my son, David, got me three rose bushes for Mother's Day this year. Unfortunately, they were Zone 5 tea roses and...

We’ve had a real wet spell

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After so many nice sunny fall days, suddenly the rains are upon us. I finally got the last of the carrots canned up and,...

The signs of spring are all around us

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Even though when you look at my front flower bed, heaped with dirty snow, ice, and some wood ashes and say "yuck," if you...

We’re plowing out after a foot of new snow

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We listen to the weather radio every morning to check upcoming weather. We'd bought a used haybine at a farm 65 miles southwest of...