We took a break from spring planting for a road trip
The reason for the "road trip" was to look at a POA (Pony of the Americas — appaloosa pony) my sister found advertised on Craigslist. You'll remember our granddaughter, Ava, loves horses and really...
Now I know how to make it rain!
All Will has to do is take the bulldozer out and install three culverts along with cutting ditches on both sides of our mile plus driveway, and — ta da! — it rains two...
Holy Cow! It’s not supposed to be in the nineties in northern Minnesota
For the second week now, we're experiencing a terrific (for us!) heat wave with steady temperatures in the nineties every day. What makes it so hard for us is that we're in our frantic...
I canned up the first batch of asparagus yesterday
I'd planned on canning asparagus for a couple of days then got busy, bringing in all the flats of plants off of the back deck. The forecast for the night was a frost warning...
Watch out; there’s a canning lid shortage!
My friend, Dara, called me the other day saying she had been in the stores and there were no canning jar lids. I asked her what stores she'd checked in and, as I was...