I have some sad news
Our son, Javid, passed away yesterday morning, peacefully, in his sleep. Although it was very hard for me, I know he'd been fighting a good fight for a few years now and was very...
With warmer weather we’ve been busy
Of course, that's nothing new, but it is so nice to be outside on nice days. Our fruit trees are budding, including the Chestnut crab that we love and thought the voles had killed...
Our fall weather is helping with harvest
I've been very busy the last few days, pulling in more dry beans to shell out. I'm talking about 5-gallon buckets plumb full and several of them. Thank God, my knees have been slowly...
Well, summer’s cooking us
Neither Will nor I like hot weather. Perhaps that's one reason we live in Northern Minnesota! But boy oh boy have we ever had hot weather lately. It makes getting at those dratted weeds...
And how does the garden grow?
Pretty darned good, despite the drought, heat, and rain, rain, rain. Some crops, like most of the corn, had to be replanted. But now the earliest is starting to tassel. Most of the squash...