Q and A: tallow candles, canning tomato soup, and apple trees
Tallow candles
Have you ever made candles from rendered tallow? I made 3 container candles in small jars as an experiment. They looked beautiful, but they only burned for about 20 minutes until the wicks...
It finally stopped raining
And boy are we busy! We couldn't do any cultivating or anything else, during the rain so we're hurrying to catch up (as if one ever does!). The weeds loved that warm, wet weather...
Tomorrow it will be -20 but today it’s spring!
Okay I'll admit I got a little giddy because my liver function tests were hugely improved and I won't have to have surgery! But really, it's just time to start the garden. Kind of. ...
We just dodged a terrific storm
It's been very hot and muggy and I told Will we were primed for a bad storm. So when the weather radio called for thunderstorms Monday night we weren't surprised. In fact, we were...
Winter keeps hanging on
Here it is, the first week of April and we've still got plenty of snow on the ground and the highs this week have barely reached 30 degrees. (I've checked photos from years back...