What do you do when it’s nasty (again!) outside?
You work inside. I think the snow's going away. It's sure sloppy/nasty outdoors and there's water everywhere. We even saw geese today so they're hoping for water to land in soon. The rivers are...
We’re continuing in the “get ready for winter” mode
In between other projects, while waiting for more cash to continue working on the barn, Will finished pushing brush piles together with Old Yeller, our trusty 'dozer, then disced the field again to ready...
Is Spring ever going to come?
We got 18 inches of blowing and drifting snow just recently, and winds up to 40 mph! And that was on top of the foot or so of snow that hadn't melted. On the...
We’re making good use of this very nice spring weather
Our season is very short here in northern Minnesota, so we're hard at work trying to get everything — especially the long-season crops — planted in the gardens. Yep, it's hard work and we're...
As usual, our beavers were right
We had a very hot, dry summer. Around here, some swamps are dry and even rivers are showing more rocks than water. Yep, we got rain. But only about 1/10 of an inch or...