While I’m busy canning, Will and David get the storage barn roof covered
I'm still busily making different tomato products from the last 30 gallons of ripening green tomatoes that were sitting in my unused (yet!) new laundry room, trying to rot after they ripened, then sitting...
We got a bit of warmer weather
And Will got nearly all the big sheets of metal barn roofing on. We finished all but the very last big sheet last night. Luckily his cordless driver has a light! Today it's in...
We’re enjoying our spell of sunny, warm weather
Nice weather makes everything go faster and nicer on the homestead, especially this time of the year when we're running around like chickens with their heads cut off. There's so much to do before...
The pin cherries are ripe; jelly tonight!
Once again, I've been racing the cedar waxwings to the beautiful crop of wild pin cherries on the edges of our driveway. It's hard to be mad at those gorgeous masked birds, even when...
We are harvesting a bounty of carrots
As our nighttime temperatures are drifting into the very low twenties, I figured I'd better get at it and pull the remaining carrots and parsnips. Wow! They have gotten huge. Even our Scarlet Nantes...