We have a new member in our family

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His name is Sarge and he's an English Mastiff 15-week-old puppy. But being a puppy is a little deceiving as he is nearly the size of Hondo, our Catahoula Leopard Dog. I've been wanting...

We’ve been spending a lot of time keeping everyone warm

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Under the spell of the Polar Vortex, we've experienced temperatures of -40° F every night with highs often reaching, perhaps -13°. Today was a heat wave! It only got to 40 below last night...

Q and A: Canning pea soup, cleaning chicken eggs, and hamburger rocks

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Canning pea soup and cleaning chicken eggs I have 2 questions: #1. I just canned some green pea soup. I followed the directions on-line for canning dried beans. My beans ended up in the bottom of...

Boy did we get clobbered by snow!

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You know that storm that was heading for us?  Well it got here.  And how!  Saturday night it started.  Then by Sunday morning, we had a foot and the snow was still...

The seminar’s over and we’re back at it

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We had a great seminar this past weekend although only Friday was sunny; we had rain all day Saturday and Sunday. But we still had fun and covered everything we had planned on covering....