The clutch went out on our new big Oliver tractor
Yesterday Will was hauling manure out onto our new pasture on the new forty acres and after seven loads, the clutch started acting up. Will just got it back up to the house when...
We’ll have a white Christmas
After a day without snow and rain, which is unheard of here in northern Minnesota this time of the year, we got a two-inch snowfall. Luckily, today the sun's out and it's pretty and...
Picking pin cherries and chokecherries to make Famous Jackie’s Mustang Cherry sauce
Well, I beat the birds to my pin cherry trees. Almost. Kind of. I was out there picking with David in the morning because I'd seen cedar waxwings down the trail. They can clean...
We’re enjoying nicer weather now
And we're getting a lot done, too. We just finished mulching, staking, and caging all 107 tomato plants and are working on weeding and mulching our main garden. Will is hard at work mulching...
Have bulldozer, Will repair
Having a bulldozer is great. We've got so much valuable work done, very quickly, with it. But yesterday, after Will had hosed it down following a two day session of cleaning small...