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...
I’ve started plotting out our gardens for this year
Before the plotting, I'm still busy seeding out our squash, especially our favorite, Hopi Pale Grey. Will's whining for pumpkin pie made from it, so we'll see…
Even though we'll still be raising a bunch...
Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!
I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia afterward, to do a little shopping. Nothing major, you understand,...
We’re preparing for a nasty stretch of weather
Right now, it's -23 and blowing snow sideways. It isn't like it was unexpected as they were forecasting arctic cold for nearly a week now. That was good as it gave us plenty of...
I’m just starting to get over my cold — in the cold
Hey, it's January in Northern Minnesota, and it's cold outside. We just had a few inches of blowing snow. So, Will finally went out to the half-finished snowplow repair and started up the truck....