Despite frost advisories, we’ve started planting in earnest
We'd planned on getting started yesterday but Will came in from checking the cows saying we had a new bull calf. Sarge had found him, lying in the edge of the woods while the...
We’re having a heat wave
After sub-zero temperatures a week ago, it doesn't seem possible that it's over 70 degrees F today, with full sun! But we're really enjoying it. Because we built our house on a hill, we...
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...
Squash, squash, and more squash…not to mention pumpkins!
When the sun was shining, a few days ago, prior to a predicted frosty night, we harvested all of our mature squash and pumpkins. WOW, did we get squash this year, and they were...
After Spring arrived, we got dumped on by a foot of snow.
Boy, were we bummed! Just when all the grass was showing in the yard and the cows were dancing with joy, we got a winter storm warning for our area. We had two days...