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...
My little plastic greenhouse is working fine
I was wondering how my little cheap indoor plastic greenhouse would work — both to grow tender plants and to keep Mittens out of them. I have to report success on both fronts. The...
It’s hard not to be impatient with healing
I'm doing exercises three times a day, plus using the leg flexing machine, icing my leg, and going to rehab three times a week so even though I'm not busy with seeds and canning,...
Our new Nubian buckling
After months of searching, we finally found a new spotted Nubian buck out of good milking bloodlines. His daddy is a huge, gorgeous black and white spotted registered buck and his mother is a...
Spring has sprung!
Wow, Spring hits here with a bang. On Saturday, our carpenter friend, Tom, stopped by to ask if we were ready for our porch roof on Monday. Last year we asked him if he...