I hope everyone had a great Independence Day

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After all, independence is what all of us self-reliant people are striving towards and that historical date hastened us down our paths, centuries ago. While we're thinking about the Fourth, we're also busy trying...

Q and A: doing chores in freezing weather and frozen strawberries

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Doing chores in freezing weather I have been following your temperatures almost daily and I wonder how you do your chores with such very cold temps. Must be a challenge. And how do your chickens...

Will and I got our first COVID vaccination this morning.

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After seeing all those long lines of cars and people camped out in longer lines, hoping to be chosen to receive the COVID vaccination, we were sure grateful to easily receive our vaccinations, without...

Hey, spring’s just around the corner (isn’t it?)

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Spring must be getting closer because I'm getting lots of seed catalogs. I've already gotten some of my favorites such as Pinetree Garden Seeds, Totally Tomatoes, and today, my favorite of favorites, Baker Creek...

We finally got our Internet back

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Sorry I have not blogged lately but our internet has been all fouled up. Today a Hughes Net technician came out and upgraded our system and we're finally back online! Meanwhile, we've been fighting freezing...