How do you keep livestock water from freezing solid off-grid?
Obviously, we can't use an electric stock tank heater. Propane heaters are expensive to buy -- and to run! Will remembered his dad telling him about his chore, as a kid, of having to...
We have babies!
And boy, do we! Billions of tadpoles have morphed into tiny baby toads and are coming up to high ground from the ponds, creek, and our spring basin. You have to be so careful...
Well … We had ¾ inch of rain yesterday
And because the weather radio had our rain chances at 20% yesterday and it was sunny, Will cut hay. He quit when it started raining two hours later. And by the time he'd gotten...
It’s rainy, cloudy, and nasty
We had snow last night but it didn't stick. Thank goodness! We still have a lot to get done before serious snow hits. We have gotten more firewood in and stacked and Will got...
Our wild turkeys are back
After a very bad, long winter, two years ago, with deep snow and very cold temperatures, we lost a lot of local deer and our wild turkeys. From flocks of 20 or more in...