I canned on my new stove for the first time

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What a trip! The stove heated perfectly even though I had to light it with a lighter not the electronic ignition. (Still don't have a pure sine wave inverter … but soon!) The quarts...

Our foot of snow is nearly gone

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And we're back at it again. The tom turkeys are strutting their stuff and sometimes I think they'll pop, they puff up so hard! Our two wild turkey hens have gone off to their...

We had a lovely, sunny day in the fifties

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It was so wonderful! The sun was shining so brightly I needed sunglasses. And boy, did the snow melt! The entire west side of the goat shed slid off with a roar, dumping three...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

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And it has! We've gotten snow every day now, at least an inch or two. It's that light, fluffy Christmas snow so it's putting us all in the holiday mood. I went out last...

The last three new solar panels are up

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No, Will didn't fall off the tall extension ladder trying to carry them up 14 feet. Luckily, he asked me for help and we used the loader bucket of our Ford tractor to boost...