Are any of you suffering from lack of sun?
We were until I came upon some of my photos taken in June! My gosh, the colors just knock us out after a winter of drab and white. Now I really can't wait till...
Q and A: Canning green tomato relish, Fall garden prep, and Pumpkin pie filling
Canning green tomato relish
I am trying to modernize a recipe from a 1934 Watkins Cookbook that makes the best Green Tomato Relish. Here is the recipe:
2 pounds of green tomatoes
1 onion
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup...
Our big snowstorm turned out to be a non-event
We were all set for a foot of blowing, drifting snow. Then nothing much happened! Yep, the wind blew like crazy, making our little wind charger howl. And, yes, it snowed. But we only...
We now own the forty acres where the big pines live
On Tuesday morning, we became the proud owners of the Big Pine Forty. Or in other words, we signed to become deeper in debt. But like all other past debts, we will suck it...
More snow and below-zero temps
As we're crawling towards spring, we've been stuck in a cold arctic spell. Last night it was -18 and today at noon, it warmed up to zero. With a wind. Plus we just got...