No, the frost didn’t pass us by
We were holding our breath last week as there was a frost advisory for the whole north country. We prayed and hustled to try and protect everything we could. We closed up the hoop...
Warm weather is finally here!
Yesterday it was 45 and today they say we'll hit 50 and the sun is out. What a relief! I never appreciated water dripping from our roof so much as this year. Yesterday Will...
What does a homesteader do for fun?
For many years, I've been working on a series of Western novels, which have mostly been sitting in a box in the closet as Westerns aren't "in." But recently, I found an interested publisher...
The peppers are coming up
After only five days, our peppers are popping up. Literally — they just show their "backs," then up they pop. Yesterday I took some out of the plastic so the humidity wouldn't cause them...
The horse pasture gets a renovation
You'll remember that last fall when Will was here for a two week visit, he took our bulldozer and rough-cleared 2/3 of our horse pasture (which had been young poplar woods before that). During...