The sun’s out and the birds are singing
Well, at least some of the birds are singing. Our temperatures are in a warming trend now and boy are we ever glad. We're already into our second year's firewood. (We try to keep...
It’s not snowing yet so Will and I are doing garden cleanup
It's cold and cloudy so we're trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles...
We still have 9 baby turkeys and we’re starting to roof the storage building
Despite heavy, and frequent, rains, which often spell doom to baby turkeys, our mama turkey still has nine babies in our orchard. They're feathering out now and getting adventurous, which drives their mother nuts....
It finally rained — 3 inches
We knew it was coming so I got busy planting squash, melons, and corn, mostly in the North garden as it is chiefly clay. When it gets wet you can't even walk in it...
Putting up the harvest
Now that we've got most of it in, we're going full bore, putting up the harvest. I've begun digging potatoes and WOW are they nice this year! I started on the row in the...