Our Thanksgiving came early this year

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As David's mother-in-law is having their family get-together on Thanksgiving Day, we agreed we'd have ours the Sunday before. The weather was nice, unlike...

Q and A: Introducing new chickens and canning yams

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Introducing new chickens I am thoroughly enjoying my chickens. I have a flock of 11, 10 hens and one rooster. I like them so much...

Disturbing National Animal Identification talk now spreading to vegetables in your garden

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Because of lots of public outcry, the NAIS, a government "wonderchild," sponsored largely by large agribusiness type animal/poultry growers, apparently shriveled and came to...

We had a very nice Christmas Eve family gathering

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So our grandchildren could spend Christmas day enjoying their gifts and stockings, we decided to have our family Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve instead...

So much for spring

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Although it's common every single year, we didn't want another big snow to come our way. Unfortunately, today, it's snowing hard, covering up my...