The cows are now happily roaming the new pasture in the Wolf forty
After a lot of hard work, Will now has the cows out on the Wolf forty, munching grass, clover, and seedling poplar trees with gusto. But to ensure they don't ever get into the...
We’re already getting ready for spring
Besides getting our seeds lined up and my garden notebook worked on, we're also figuring out how to make our five acres of gardens easier to work as we're not getting any younger. (My...
Goat breeding season is beginning on our homestead
It's time we introduced our does to our new Boer buck, Thor. We breed two does the end of October or first of November, for late March or early April kids, and two a...
It may be Christmas, but I’m drooling over seed catalogs already
This year, I've been getting seed catalogs for nearly a month now. So Will and I have been discussing different varieties that we'd like to try. We've already ordered 9 new apple trees, a...
Not big movie-goers, we just saw the best movie of our lives
Will and I had been intending on seeing the new Tom Cruise movie, Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning at our local small-town theater. But we got busy until yesterday, the day we thought was...