Had a wonderful Mother’s Day
Did I mention it rained all week? Needless to say, Bill couldn't bring up his tractor-mounted rototiller on Mother's Day as the ground was too wet. I suppose we could have done the garden...
The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch
Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...
Did you see the total lunar eclipse Wednesday?
Okay, so my photo leaves something to be desired. I was excited and obviously I wasn't too steady for the long exposure. But WOW! There was a bell-clear sky and a huge, nearly full...
The garden is going in!
I tilled the entire garden a couple of weeks ago, to work in the rotted manure Will dumped on it last fall. Then a week ago, I did it again. It's amazing how nice...
Q and A: canning chicken and peppers for chile powder
Canning chicken
I noticed in the recent issue of BHM an article about canning chicken, both raw and cooked. In the raw method, the author suggested filling the jar with chicken then adding broth to...