As an early Christmas present, I got an intestinal flu!

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Last week, just when things were gearing up for Christmas, my gut felt ishy. Then all heck broke loose. You get the picture. David had the same thing, which he brought home from school...

The sun is drying things out so we can get to work

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After lots of rain, which turned our central and north gardens to clay mush, the sun has been out daily and things are starting to dry. It's a good thing too, as our central...

Today was cooler so I made an apple pie

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Watching our orchard apples ripening, I got so hungry for an apple pie that I decided to take a few minutes and make one. None of ours were ripe yet so I grabbed five...

Our tomatoes and peppers are getting ripe

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With those ripening crops, I've been busy taking out seed to save for our seed business. I always take seed from the earliest and some of the best ones. I also give them a...

I’ve had fun looking at back issues of Backwoods Home Magazine

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  As I have to spend a lot of time lying down to keep my "surgery" leg from swelling down to the foot, I've been reading a bunch of old BHM magazines. I have the...