Will got the hay in just before the rain
Will, Christian, and Eric worked in 90 degree heat to get a small field of very tall Reed canary grass baled into square bales. Rain was in the forecast (which has now hit in...
Mom is home from rehab!
I brought Mom home from rehab at the nursing home Friday. And we look on it as a major miracle. When she was in the hospital with a severe bladder infection, we were almost...
Q and A: Scarlet Runner beans and canning cranberries
Scarlet Runner beans
Two years ago I ordered some beans (edible), red flowers, climbers, only got 5 beans in packet. Saved all the beans for this year. Planted them, had lots, ate some (delicious) kind...
We enjoyed another fantastic family day out at Byrns Greenhouse
For the last 11 or so years, as much of our family as possible met at the Byrns Greenhouse near Zim, Minnesota, for our family buy-them-out-of-flowers day. Okay, so it seems to me! As...
Things got a little nuts around here
Unfortunately, my handicapped, adopted son, Javid, developed a bone infection from a pressure sore he's been fighting for some time. He was in the ICU for a while, on IV antibiotics and was recently...