It’s mid-summer and we’re planting our fall cabbages

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Here it is late July. Summer has just roared by. I think it's because spring was a month late and we've been playing catch-up ever since. The garden looks great so it's hard to...

We’re above 40 degrees F today

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After a long cold spell, today's sunny warmth is so very welcome! First, let me thank all of you for your lovely prayers and thoughts for us and Javid after his passing last week....

Now we’re working on two barns!

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As if one new barn wasn't enough, now we're working on two barns. After Will came home with five new bottle calves, and we got such a good deal on several more, we suddenly...

Q and A: canning ground meat and planting apple seeds

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Canning ground meat I pressure dry-canned 4 quarts of ground meat. I cooked the meat, drained what little fat there was, placed in hot sterilized jars, removed bubbles, placed lids, then processed for 90 minutes...

The rain came

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It's been so dry lately, with storms going north and south of us regularly. Where friend, Dara, several miles north of us got an inch, we didn't get a sprinkle. But, yesterday, it rained...