Believe it or not, most of our two feet of snow is gone
But it is snowing a bit this morning. Mittens went out exploring the big snow pile next to the yard made by the snowplow truck. She LOVES the snow. When fresh snow is deep...
Oh oh, a freeze warning
Due to the tropical storm moving northward, it sucked a cold high down from Canada unexpectedly, after we had corn, beans, squash, and melons up in the gardens. Notice, I said "gardens" as in...
We’re still getting ready for winter around here
When we unloaded our second ton of pumpkins, I saved a dozen of the very nicest, from which I'll can up and dehydrate for the pantry. I'll also toast some of the seeds for...
We’re planting, planting, planting like mad
It's supposed to rain Friday through Tuesday. And as this is the first rain we've had for days, we sure want to get planted ahead of it. After all, two of our big gardens...
We have plenty of snow on the ground
Winter came early this year and stayed! So far we have about a foot of snow on the ground and it shows no sign of melting. Temps are headed into the single numbers this...