We’re sure hoping for more rain
In the meantime, I've begun watering in various gardens and the orchard. That's in between putting tomato cages on a trillion tomato plants. Will has been busy mulching and pounding in steel T posts...
Our beautiful fall weather will come to an end with frost
We're supposed to get frost and possibly snow flurries tonight through Saturday evening, and we've still got veggies in the gardens. I've been picking beans and corn for weeks and now we've switched into...
And we thought we were busy before!
Over the holiday weekend, Ashley's dad came up and so did Jacob, a friend of David's. We had a long weekend of building on David's new cabin. Luckily, the weather cooperated for the most...
Our pigs love harvest time!
Although our pigs have been getting garden waste since mid-summer, it consisted mainly of hail-damaged tomatoes, rodent-chewed melons and squash, weeds, and other such goodies. But now that we've had a freeze and have...
Who said northern Minnesota was cold?
We've been having unreal temperatures lately; from 88 to 95 degrees with high humidity. Puff, puff, sweat dripping, pant, pant. It's hard to get things done! I went out yesterday and thinned a row...