The weather is beautiful
With temperatures back in the "perfect" seventies, we have a lot more energy. Will took the newly put-back-together Oliver over to cut hay this morning to give it a trial run. He ran it...
After being gone for a week, we’re playing catch-up
Of course it doesn't help to be exhausted and have a cold, to boot! Will's got the cold worse than I do; he's coughing and I'm just running at the nose like a fire...
Q and A: canning applesauce and canning yellow squash
Canning applesauce
My wife made applesauce and froze the entire batch with the exception of enough to fill three canning jars, one for us and two for the daughters. She put our jar in...
Well, our nice weather came to a snowy end
Last night, we got six inches of new, fluffy white. We were getting so spoiled with the nicer weather! I was planning on taking off the bean trellises in the House garden that got...
Q and A: turkey hen laying early, moving to the country, and using canned...
Turkey hen laying early
I have been trying to raise some Jersey Buff turkeys for a few years now. We got a tom and a hen a few years ago and this past summer was...