Sometimes it only takes a phone call
We had been noticing a new logging site about 10 miles south of us where there were several large piles of scrap logs left over. Luckily, David noticed a sign with the logger's name...
Q and A: seal on a woodstove, planting peppers, and canning cheese
Seal on woodstove
We have a woodstove in our small cabin which is 700 sq. ft. Each year the seal on the inside of the door of the wood burner comes off and causes my...
We sold our bull and now have a pretty jersey heifer
Since we had no use for our bull, Mack, from our shorthorn milking cow, Lace, we decided to sell him as a breeding bull. I put an ad on Craigslist and a nice young...
We’re into the “gettin’ ready for winter” mode
Although we have the woodshed stuffed full, which is about two years' worth, we are now filling our enclosed back porch with small wood. (This is the popple sapling poles that Will saves when...
Hooray, it’s fifty above!
The sun came out this morning and the temperature shot up. Now almost all of our snow is gone except some slush pack on our mile-long driveway that's kind of ugly. But, luckily, it's...