Despite rain and snow, the greenhouse gets built
Our friends, Mike and Dara, came yesterday to help out. While Dara and I packaged seeds, Mike and Will set about putting the polycarbonate on the remaining side of the new greenhouse. It went...
It feels like winter outside
Last night, it dropped to 19 degrees. Holy cow, and it's not Halloween yet! It is supposed to warm up again later this week, but I'll be gone, again taking our friend, Tom, down...
We worked super hard to get ready for freezing temperatures
Around here, hard freezes usually come way before this. And we're so grateful that this year we had a very long fall so we could get more and more of our crops harvested before...
On the coldest night, a calf is born
It wasn't planned to have winter calves. But stuff happens on the homestead. One of our cows, who we thought was bred for an August calf, evidently didn't get bred and while running with...
We’re babysitting Buddy
My oldest son, Bill, and his family were going to take a mini-vacation at a Wisconsin Dells Waterpark so they needed someone to dog-sit. As Buddy, an 8 month old chocolate Lab, had been...