This time of the year, it’s “winter’s coming mode”
We're rushing more lately, knowing that our wonderful fall weather may come to a screeching halt sometime way too soon. Although the forecast is for warmer weather all this week, we're feeling the pinch....
We woke up to -7 yesterday morning
So I was kind of surprised when it had warmed up to 5 above, Will asked if I wanted to go down and split a truckload of firewood. What the heck — I put...
It’s time to go through our storage bins in the root cellar
It's early spring and I'm going through our onions and potatoes, checking for soft veggies. Luckily, I've only found a dozen onions softening up. The Dakota Pearl potatoes are just barely getting sprouts and...
We made use of a nice weekend
David and his friend Ian cut and hauled more firewood out of the mess the loggers left at the end of the Wolf Road (the logging trail David's cabin is on). Ian brought his...
We’re preparing for another big snowstorm
This time, they're forecasting power outages to be widespread, as the heavy, wet snow has frozen on the evergreen boughs, making them both extremely heavy and brittle. Of course, living off grid, that doesn't...