Ahh! Warmer weather!

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I don't think we've ever been so happy to feel warmer winter weather in our lives. After nearly a month of below normal, brutal, unrelenting cold, we've hit a spell of warmer weather. Yesterday...

Freeze!

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Well, it finally happened -- Thursday night it froze. David came over in the afternoon after his college course was finished and helped Will cover what we could, hoping to save at least a...

Q and A: emergency escape vehicle, canning hamburger, cold hardy apricot tree

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Emergency planning escape vehicle Great ideas in Issue #157, January/February 2016 Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag. Got me wondering what would make the best "escape" vehicle. I am thinking a diesel. Gasoline would...

I’m sure you’ve had “one of those days”

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Last Thursday was one for me. My adopted son, Javid, is still getting his ducks in a row after we moved him here from Montana. To get his Social Security Disability, he had to...

Yep, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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My oldest son, Bill, and his family came up to our homestead along with David and Javid. Together we made a happy feast of all those homestead foods. None of us had room for...