Our wild turkey hen is back
And she brought her family! This year, we've been seeing her, way down about 2½ miles from our place. She had four babies. Slowly, over the course of the summer, she and her family...
Spring has sprung!
Wow, Spring hits here with a bang. On Saturday, our carpenter friend, Tom, stopped by to ask if we were ready for our porch roof on Monday. Last year we asked him if he...
The heavy rains flooded our small town of Cook
Those 7 to 10-inch pouring rains made things around here sloppy but in the small town of Cook, "our" town of 600, things took a turn for the worse. The Little Fork River, which...
Are any of you getting tired of winter?
We sure are. Yesterday we got four more inches of snow and it dropped to -21° F last night and the high today is -4. But at least the sun is out and that...
With the help of friends, we got 275 tomatoes planted in one day
My friends, Dara, her daughter-in-law, Grace, and Heather came over yesterday morning and by mid-afternoon, we had not only planted all of the tomato varieties we'll be growing this year but also got four...