The grasshoppers are gone
Suddenly, as in almost overnight, our grasshopper plague has ended! I hadn't even noticed until Will mentioned it. No more clouds of grasshoppers flying...
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...
Blueberries are ripe!
I've been watching the wild blueberries since spring. Last year, after suffering that cold winter with drought and no snow cover, many of the...
QandA: Non-electric grain mill, Canning corned beef, and Sweet potatoes
Non-electric grain mill
In your opinion, what is the best non-electric grain mill? Right now I use an electric one to grind my wheat. I...
Finally, I’m canning carrots
After three days of thinking "tomorrow I'll get to can carrots," it's finally happening. Yesterday I started out shelling various varieties of corn and...