Amid our spring planting, a horrible fire destroys apartment building where David’s girlfriend lives
We were busy erecting and planting our hoop houses, complaining how late we were getting that done this year due to my knee surgery and the goofy spring (a foot of snow on the...
We spent Sunday delivering beef to customers
Ever have to be in two places at once? Not uncommon for us. For instance, we had two steers butchered and yesterday was the day we'd arranged to meet various customers who bought quarters...
We do plan on having a fall homestead seminar
Due to lots of requests, Will and I have decided to do what may be (due to our age, etc.) our last seminar. It will be held August 28th, 29th, and 30th. As usual,...
Our homestead has grown another 40 acres
The forty acres adjacent to ours (down what we call the Wolf Road, an old lumbering trail off our driveway) was for sale by the Potlatch Timber Company. And, as David needed a place...
We had really dense smoke for two days
When I got up at 5 a.m., everything was orange. The trees, the grass — everything. The smoke was so dense I thought we had a fire nearby. You couldn't even see across the...