Our foot of snow is nearly gone

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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...

We had a very happy Fourth of July

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Fortunately, after several hours of miserable car repair to replace our serpentine belt on the car, Will got our car ready to roll. So, on the Fourth of July, we were able to make...

This time of the year, I’ve got more plants in the tub than people!

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I've ordered lots of trees and bramble fruits for our orchard this year; I keep seeing these things bringing higher and higher outrageous prices and decided THIS year I'd get the orchard booted up....

The rhubarb is up!

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Every spring, we search for the first little red rhubarb noses poking out of the soil above our rhubarb plants. And they're up! It's officially spring! It will be only a couple of weeks...

From below zero to above 60 in one week!

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Only in Minnesota does it go from sub-zero to 62 degreesin a week. We did have about 2 feet of snow on the ground, but today it's totally gone except in shady areas or...