When you live in the backwoods, you live by the weather
The first thing we do every morning is turn on our little weather radio to see what the coming weather is going to be (or do to us!). And by that, we plan our...
Now we’re working on two barns!
As if one new barn wasn't enough, now we're working on two barns. After Will came home with five new bottle calves, and we got such a good deal on several more, we suddenly...
Q and A: canning jalapeños, cherries for chickens, and canning roasted Hatch chiles
Canning jalapeños
I'm interested in canning jalapeños, but I don't want to pickle them. I want to chop them and can them for later use in various dishes. Can I just add lemon to water...
There’s beauty outside even when the high is -18 degrees
Sure it's cold, but the sun's out and it looks beautiful today. We had 40 mph winds with snow yesterday and there's lots of drifts. I noticed how pretty they were when I drove...