Q and A: keeping a refrigerator working in a cold environment, early Fall weather,...

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Keeping a refrigerator working in a cold environment I heard that they don't make a refrigerator/freezer that can be used in a cabin that is allowed to get cooler than 55 degrees. We have been...

I had a terrible spring cold

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I hope I haven't worried any of you but I just wasn't up to blogging last week. I got a terrible spring cold — runny nose and coughing 24/7. Yep, I took zinc, vitamin...

We’re sure hoping for more rain

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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...

Holy cow, winter came with a bang again this year

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Winter actually came about three weeks earlier than usual this year! (Yeah, sure, we were ready … Uh huh.) Where our "normal" high temperature is 50° F, we've been very lucky to see 30,...

Whew, have we ever been busy!

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First off, we had near-blizzard conditions with driving snow and 45 mph wind. And, of course, we had to set out big round bales for the cows! I man the gates (or would that...