Finally, I’m canning carrots

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After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and getting them packaged up. Then, I noticed several varieties of...

Our calves did so well last year that we’ve bought two more

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We raised four steer calves last summer/fall, and they are now very BIG guys! Will just measured them with a weight tape (it's a tape measure that has cattle weights, along with inches marked...

Will and I have been busy with early spring projects

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As usual, we have been spreading manure on all of our nine gardens. Well, Will runs the tractor and loader and I open and close gates, chasing cows away from them so he can...

Yep, it’s still raining

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But luckily, we had a fairly nice day on Saturday when son, Bill, and his family came up for a visit. He and Mason had gone to the recycling center to leave off some...

With warmer weather, we are finally able to work outside

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We have had temperatures in the sunny thirties so this past weekend we got to work on David and Ashley's new cabin. Although David has been working on a bandsaw mill at his work...