We’re still hard at work with the harvest
And boy, are we glad we did get a good harvest, despite the weather and we are so glad we live way up north. We really feel for folks who were hit with the...
Q and A: Canning hamburger and spicy tomato
Canning hamburger
This is the first time I've ever canned hamburger. The canning went well, and we canned in pint jars. Around the top of the hamburger there is a ring of grease, even though...
Our first tomatoes are ripe
The tomatoes are slow this year due to the intense heat we had early on when they were starting to set blossoms. (When it gets hot, the plants throw their blooms, due to stress.)...
Yesterday we went from storing 300 gallons of water to 600!!
Our friend Tom stopped by yesterday with a bag full of plumbing fittings and proceeded to hook our new water storage tank up, in series, to our old tank. But first, I dumped a...
Our foot of snow is nearly gone
And we're back at it again. The tom turkeys are strutting their stuff and sometimes I think they'll pop, they puff up so hard! Our two wild turkey hens have gone off to their...