We’ve moved our steers onto the new seeding
Four 800-pound steers eat a lot of grass! A month ago, we moved them into the newly fenced pasture, but they ate the grass down all too quickly. But luckily, the new seeding next...
It’s mid-forties but cloudy and misty today
Today Will's out in our north woods, cutting a trail through the trees to a huge white pine he cut two days ago. The pine had been leaning, more and more over the past...
We had really dense smoke for two days
When I got up at 5 a.m., everything was orange. The trees, the grass — everything. The smoke was so dense I thought we had a fire nearby. You couldn't even see across the...
Q and A: converted woodstove and wild plum pits
Converted woodstove
We have a woodstove that the prior owners turned into a gas "fireplace" type of stove. They put a hole in the bottom for the gas line, etc. Is it possible to change...
We finally got a little rain
We finally got a decent shower after being in a drought for more than two months. But, thankfully, we have water and have been able to water from two wells and our irrigation system....