Canning and building goes forward
With our entire gardens harvested, we switched energy to canning up the produce as quickly as possible. Those twelve big crates of tomatoes on the enclosed back porch are beginning to ripen quite quickly....
We escaped the frost!
But I'm sure there is more frost to come. We shut up our big hoop house, still full of peppers and pole beans and said prayers. And they worked! When we woke up it...
You know the old saying “It never rains but it pours”
That's just what's going on here on the homestead. Will worked on the broken-down Oliver tractor all day Saturday in the snow and got absolutely nowhere. Then, on Sunday, he figured out how to...
And you think YOU’VE got weeds?
A lot of folks have the very mistaken notion that Will and Jackie have these perfect gardens with no weeds. Ha ha ha! Especially this year, we sure have plenty of them. The pigweed...
We just added a new cutie to our “harvest”
Yesterday, David and Elizabeth became the proud parents of a beautiful little girl, Melanie Noreen. Of course, we were glued to the phone all day but still, we managed to seed out several pumpkins...