While we’re working, we’re praying steadily for the folks in Texas and New Mexico

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Yep, we're complaining about rain and weeds while those poor folks are grieving for lost and missing loved ones. It sure puts things into perspective, doesn't it? My heart hurts for them so bad....

Rain, rain, rain, rain

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Yep, we've had a rainy week! Cold and windy with rain. Not fun. Will's working on building us a tub-style chicken plucker that I've dubbed Will's Chicken Tornado, built out of scraps of this and...

And I thought I was done planting peppers

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I had forgotten to look in the bin that has customer-donated heirloom seeds! Oops! Well, I did and found four interesting, new-to-us peppers, two sweet and two hot. Of course I must plant them...

The big Bill Bean is ripe

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You've been wondering when you'd get a chance to see our biggest big Bill Bean tomato? We harvested it before the chickens could get a beak on it, and it's a whopper — the...

Q and A: preserving tomatoes, canning peaches, and planting a recently excavated slope

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Preserving tomatoes Because of the month long heat (in 100s) the only tomatoes I have are the cherry ones and I'm thankful for those. I have juiced the first batch and it is thick. Not...