With warmer weather, we are finally able to work outside
We have had temperatures in the sunny thirties so this past weekend we got to work on David and Ashley's new cabin. Although David has been working on a bandsaw mill at his work...
The good new is that I’m canning venison; the bad news is that David’s...
I'm once again canning up a deer that my son, Bill, donated. It's lucky he did, too, as we didn't have much luck this year hunting. I had a doe tag but won't shoot...
The summer with no summer
We are approaching the end of one of the coldest summers in recent Minnesota history. Friends who have lived here for 40 years cannot remember such a cold summer. Nighttime temperatures have struggled to...
Finally, spring is here!
After the second longest winter in northern Minnesota history, spring is finally here. Our temperature today is a sunny 50 and the snow and ice are going away fast. (Usually, we're in the garden...
Work on the new pasture continues
As the spring weather continues to be warm and very dry, we've been working hard on clearing and preparing the new pasture for seeding. It was a terrible tangle of old logging debris, low...