Canning keeps on going on…

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…but we're also still harvesting seeds. Today Ashley and I shelled two gallons of beautiful Bear Island Chippewa corn. I just can't get over how beautiful it is and how fat those colorful kernels...

Our wild turkey hen is back

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And she brought her family! This year, we've been seeing her, way down about 2½ miles from our place. She had four babies. Slowly, over the course of the summer, she and her family...

Our super hot weather’s cooled down pleasantly

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As we've been over 90° F most days, it's such a blessing it's cooled down to about 70. On Friday, I had to have Will take me to the ER. I'd been having heart palpitations...

We got our beef back

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Yesterday, we went to pick up our beef from the processing plant. Our oldest son, Bill, and his wife are getting a hindquarter, we are keeping a hindquarter and we pre-sold the front two...

It’s not snowing yet so Will and I are doing garden cleanup

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It's cold and cloudy so we're trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles...