Winter’s just around the corner
We had ice on the animals' watering tanks this morning. Brrrrr.
Will's been trimming dead trees that hang over the driveway and will cause trouble this winter when we plow snow. Luckily, a lot of...
Q and A: canning pear butter, storing brown rice, and wood usage
Canning pear butter
I made some pear butter this past summer and it is really thick. If it is too thick can it fall in the same category as pureed squash?
Sheryl Napier
Newport News, Virginia
No, because...
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...
Q and A: cooking on a wood burner and butchering older roosters
Cooking on a wood burner
I always thought I'd be able to cook on my wood burner, but I decided to give it a try and the top of the stove only gets about 130...
Rain, rain, go away
While it looked like a hot, dry summer weeks ago, when temps were in the high 80s, the last two weeks have brought rain. Lately, it's been every day. Boy, is it hard to...