Everyone’s enjoying the sun
I noticed our "wild" roosters (the ones who refuse to live in the chicken coop) sitting out in the sun in front of the storage barn on hay piled there. They were taking full...
It’s finally raining
Although we don't like to work in the wet, we are very glad the rains finally came. We've been in fire danger for several days now, with winds off and on, so we were...
This year I get to make three Christmas dinners
We had our regular Christmas dinner on Christmas, then on Sunday, my oldest son, Bill, his wife, Kelly Jo and my adorable year old grandson, Mason came up for a second Christmas, complete with...
Q and A: apple barbeque sauce, harvesting rhubarb, and potato blight
Apple Barbeque Sauce
I am getting ready to make Apple Barbeque sauce that is in the Backwoods Home Cooking cookbook. The recipe is by Richard Blunt. Do you know if this recipe can be processed,...
The sun’s out and we’re enjoying it wholeheartedly
This morning, I finished transplanting our peppers and got them into the greenhouse. Yea! But I'm now looking at a whole lot of leggy tomato seedlings that need to follow quickly. We haven't had...