The grasshoppers are gone

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Suddenly, as in almost overnight, our grasshopper plague has ended! I hadn't even noticed until Will mentioned it. No more clouds of grasshoppers flying up in front of us when we walk in the...

What am I going to do with that husband of mine?

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We've been busy, trying to play catch-up from our late spring when all of a sudden, Will says he pulled his back, lifting the idler wheel into the crawler/loader he replaced the track tensioner...

This time of the year, it’s “winter’s coming mode”

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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....

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...

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The sun is out and the birds are singing I especially noticed this when I went to Homestead Mills to buy feed this morning. While we were loading up, the sparrows in the warehouse were...