I’ve started plotting out our gardens for this year

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Before the plotting, I'm still busy seeding out our squash, especially our favorite, Hopi Pale Grey. Will's whining for pumpkin pie made from it, so we'll see… Even though we'll still be raising a bunch...

Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!

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I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia afterward, to do a little shopping. Nothing major, you understand,...

We’ve been filling many seed orders

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We wait all fall and a lot of the winter until our new seed catalog comes out in anticipation of filling lots of seed orders for folks. Well, the catalog came out later than...

A beautiful day, getting ready for a big snowstorm tomorrow

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It doesn't seem possible, with temps in the high forties and the sun shining brightly above, in a blue sky, but yes, they are forecasting a storm warning for us tomorrow. The amounts of...

Oh my, did I ever get a deal

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Last week, I found fire-roasted green chile peppers, canned in 24-ounce containers on Facebook Marketplace. My daughter-in-law, Kelly Jo picked them up for me and David brought them up here after deer hunting down...