Planting pumpkins and molting chickens
Planting pumpkins
I just want to plant pie pumpkins but do not want them spreading all over my garden. Because of being gone most of the summer my garden is not as huge as I...
We had a unique visitor today
Normally, along with our daily work of feeding chickens, watering cows, making hay, and pulling weeds in our gardens, we get occasional visits from folks wanting to buy seeds, take a tour of our...
Why start it? It’s too much work. You’ll never get it done!
You know, I've heard that all my life. Well meaning (I guess, I hope!) people seem all too happy to crush someone's dreams with those words. I remember when my oldest son, Bill, was...
Our fall weather is helping with harvest
I've been very busy the last few days, pulling in more dry beans to shell out. I'm talking about 5-gallon buckets plumb full and several of them. Thank God, my knees have been slowly...
We’ve started on the second section of the equipment shed
With the first 12x24-foot section of our new storage shed fairly finished and stacked a quarter full of firewood already, we've moved on to the next and highest section. The center section will be...