I canned on my new stove for the first time
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...
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...
Our foot of snow is nearly gone
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...
Sometimes you get an unexpected break in your day
Our routine is pretty much the same, day after day. We get up. I shower while Will builds up the fire in the living room stove. When I'm dried off, I go out to...
Sometimes it only takes a phone call
We had been noticing a new logging site about 10 miles south of us where there were several large piles of scrap logs left over. Luckily, David noticed a sign with the logger's name...