Well, we got ‘er nearly done
Luckily, the rain held off mostly yesterday, and we got nearly all the carrots, beets, potatoes, and rutabagas pulled. David and Delilah came over in the morning and helped pull a crate of carrots....
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving
After spending two days cleaning my seed-scattered house and baking/cooking up a storm, Bill and his family and David and his family arrived to help us enjoy the day and feast on all the...
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 were surprised to see a low of 5 degrees F on our weather...
The forecast was to be a high of 35 degrees F today, so when I woke up, I checked the weather station on our shelf, as I always do in the morning. But I...
It’s pepper planting time at the homestead
While it's not really pepper seed planting time here, we have to get an early start as we have so many different seeds to start. We are going with 40 different peppers, both sweet...