I’m back from the Denver Self Reliance Expo

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It was a nice show and I not only got to meet many fans and old friends, but was able to meet Eve and Eivin Kilcher of the Discovery Channel's series, Alaska; the Last...

After a night of 20° F, now we are having Indian Summer

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It always seems to happen that way; we work, covering everything we can with blankets, tarps, and whatever we can find. That buys us a few days. But then — like a couple of...

It’s mid-forties but cloudy and misty today

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Today Will's out in our north woods, cutting a trail through the trees to a huge white pine he cut two days ago. The pine had been leaning, more and more over the past...

With winter definitely here we are planning our gardens

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We've got serious snow on the ground and temps which are destined to see below zero this week, but Will and I are hard at work planning our next year's gardens. Like many of...

Winter’s still here, although it’s really only fall

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Last night we had a temperature of 7° F. Holy cow, it's not even the end of the month yet — October, that is! We usually are in the fifties with lows in the...