We’re experiencing a heat wave

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Today it topped out at 27 degrees above zero F! We were thrilled and it sure gave us a hint of the spring to come, here at the very end of January. It sure...

I’ll swear Will and I are growing webs between our toes

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We've only had one sunny (kind of) day in a week. It's weather for ducks and geese. This makes getting anything done around here a nasty job — squish, squish, squish. We were thrilled...

Yesterday we had a memorial service for our son, Javid

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He passed away after a long siege of health issues in February. But we wanted to wait to have a service for him until the weather was nicer and the wild fruit trees in...

We got that hay up!

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By the grace of God, we got another 18 big round bales up before the rain. That brings our total this year up to just under sixty bales. Now if we can just get...

Sorry to be so late blogging!

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We've been fighting against frost, which has been threatening nearly every day. We've been picking, husking corn, pulling in beans, and, lately, covering rare crops as we were under a frost advisory. Yesterday, our...