What do we do when it’s 5° below? Haul more firewood!
We've had a cold snap, with more snow and bitter cold on the way. But the sun has been shining, and Will and David went out across the creek with Old Yeller, our trusty...
We finally got a Baltimore Oriole
After weeks of waiting, we were finally rewarded by seeing a Baltimore Oriole in a birch tree off of our deck. He tried to drink from our hummingbird feeder with no results. He flew...
Q and A: canning bacon, pepper rings, and rusty canning jars
Canning bacon
I have canned bacon by chopping slices into chunks, lightly frying then pressure canning. I want to try canning strips next, but would like to put up half strips in smaller jars...
The goat barn is painted (before winter!) and beauty is expecting
I finally finished painting the goat barn/chicken coop. And boy does it look nice! You've got to remember what it used to look like, with donkey-eaten holes in the old OSB and raggedy blue...
Squash, squash, and more squash…not to mention pumpkins!
When the sun was shining, a few days ago, prior to a predicted frosty night, we harvested all of our mature squash and pumpkins. WOW, did we get squash this year, and they were...