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....
In between seeding out squash seeds, I’m canning venison
We've been really busy, seeding out the melons and squash in the greenhouse as we're heating it with propane, and it really isn't sealed up tight enough for economical heating yet. We're trying to...
The frantic pace is keeping up
With several crates of ripe tomatoes on the front porch plus other "must can soon" crops waiting, I've been kind of busy lately. Yep, it's getting colder every day now. Tonight, it's supposed to...
Finally, we’re sort of getting caught up
Will has nearly all of our firewood cut up. We split it, then he hauled it into a huge pile in the woodshed, so it stays dry. Now he has to get it stacked....
Things are back to normal around here
We've been celebrating Will's recovery from his heart attack last week. He's been doing very well and today we went to Duluth for his check-up with the cardiologist and he came through with flying...