Things are back to normal after the holidays

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Despite the clinging cold spell we've been up against for the last two weeks, the homestead is rolling along fairly smoothly. On the "warmer" days when it's barely above zero, Will starts the diesel...

It never rains but it pours

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Okay, Will had his heart attack (and recovered), his cow dies, and our water line to the house froze. Then somebody bought up the 80 acres between our big Pines Forty and the road....

Well, Minnesota is due to go into lockdown Friday morning

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We knew it was coming since Michigan and Wisconsin ended up doing that recently as the Covid-19 virus increased in strength. So we sold packages of seeds to a local fellow who wanted to...

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...

We hope everyone had a happy Labor Day

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We laugh because we were laboring harder yesterday than usual. You see we have Arctic cold dropping down on us on Wednesday night. They're even calling for snow. Ugh! I sure hope it doesn't...