Plentiful water is a wonderful thing
It's amazing how you take some things for granted; plentiful water for one thing. On our last homestead, we had to haul water during the driest part of the summer and all winter, making...
With spring finally here, we are keeping pretty busy
With Old Yeller up and running, Will made ditches with the tractor and breaking plow then cleaned them up with the dozer. (I won't mention that he threw a track yesterday, and he waded...
The rafters for the calf barn go up despite the cold and drizzle
I got to "play" with our Hud-Son bandsaw mill this afternoon. We had picked the last of our sweet corn after it had gotten frosted. Because sweet corn will convert sugars to starch in...
We’re loving the squash/pumpkin crop this year
As it was a warm summer with plenty of rain, our pumpkins and squash did wonderfully well. So did the squash and pumpkins that our friend, Dara, grew. She helps us grow out different...
The frogs are peeping
On the very last day of April, both the woods frogs and spring peepers started singing all over our beaver ponds and in the creek. Usually the woods frogs, who sound sort of like...