We may be in northern Minnesota, but we’ve already got tomatoes on the vine!

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Okay, okay, so the plants are in containers. I cannot tell a lie. When it was time to transplant the tomatoes and peppers this spring I planted a dozen in large pots. So while...

The first batches of tomatoes are in

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I spent two days planting dozens of varieties of tomatoes in peat pellets. This year, because of our little seed business (which has been very encouraging), we are going to plant more than 30...

We’re trying to crowd a lot of odd jobs into what little Fall we...

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It always seems that this time of year, we have so many jobs we want to get done "before winter!" We keep hacking away at them, but it's getting colder and colder every day....

We had two great Christmas celebrations

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Since our youngest son, David, had to work on Saturday when oldest son Bill and his family could come, we had Christmas dinner on Christmas for David and his girlfriend Hannah, and another Christmas...

Do you ever wonder what I lust after?

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I'm like everyone else; sometimes I really, really want something. And I'm the one who preaches about deciding whether something is needed or just "wanted!" Like everyone, we're really broke after the holidays, too....