Our first peppers are doing really well

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After less than a week, the first hot peppers are popping up. First you see their "backs," the curved part of the stem that comes up out of the soil. Then follows the first...

Finally, the rain has stopped … Temporarily

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While the gardens were still pretty wet from the torrential rain we experienced last week, I was able to get all of our pepper plants into the ground. Will followed, mulching first with rotted...

Of course it’s winter when your drier quits drying

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Well, I shouldn't really complain at all. After all, it is a well-used dryer that my oldest son, Bill and his wife had used for years before getting a new one when they moved...

Things are pretty normal lately

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Will's been having good luck haying and is out today, baling up two nice fields, trying to get it done before it rains this afternoon. We're not complaining about the rain though, as we...

I almost lost Will on Friday!

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Okay, it was Friday the 13th … He had taken a big round bale out to the cows in the North pasture and had come back though the pipe gate, parked the tractor on...