Homesteading with Jackie Clay
The sun’s out and it’s warming up
We are so tickled to have quite a bit of sun lately. I can't praise our new lithium-ion batteries enough. We replaced our old lead-acid batteries (golf cart batteries) a couple months ago and...
Grandson Drew is up from St. Paul
He brought a load of his things up to the house David built. David and his family bought a house in Chisholm, a town about 20 miles southwest of us, making it closer to...
I’ve started plotting out our gardens for this year
Before the plotting, I'm still busy seeding out our squash, especially our favorite, Hopi Pale Grey. Will's whining for pumpkin pie made from it, so we'll see…
Even though we'll still be raising a bunch...
Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!
I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia afterward, to do a little shopping. Nothing major, you understand,...
We’re preparing for a nasty stretch of weather
Right now, it's -23 and blowing snow sideways. It isn't like it was unexpected as they were forecasting arctic cold for nearly a week now. That was good as it gave us plenty of...
I’m just starting to get over my cold — in the cold
Hey, it's January in Northern Minnesota, and it's cold outside. We just had a few inches of blowing snow. So, Will finally went out to the half-finished snowplow repair and started up the truck....
We’ve been filling many seed orders
We wait all fall and a lot of the winter until our new seed catalog comes out in anticipation of filling lots of seed orders for folks. Well, the catalog came out later than...
Did you ever have “one of those days?”
We did, today! Will had made an appointment to get our car in for front brakes on Wednesday. His grandson, Drew, who had wanted to move up here, away from the cities, just lost...
Winter is here
Well, our high yesterday was -7. But, hey, we are snug as a bug in a rug, just tossing more wood in the living room stove and kitchen range. New Years Eve and day...
We’re still enjoying Christmas
We had a nice family get-together on Saturday, but son, David, and his family couldn't come as they were sick. Too many previous Christmas parties, I think! However, Bill and his family came, bringing...
