David had fun with one of our pumpkins

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We have been feeding all of our animals lots of our two tons of pumpkins. They love them, from chickens to the pigs, goats,...

Mom’s in the hospital, so please forgive the short blog post

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Just a week after Mother's Day, I had to rush Mom to the Cook Hospital.  She was suddenly vomiting and her stomach hurt.  As...

testing cron

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testing the cron function.

Q and A: using a fermenting crock for meat and peeling Hopi Pale Gray...

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Using fermenting crock for meat My husband would like to cure some meat in my German fermenting crock. Will my crock be safe to use...

While we keep getting ready for winter, my satellite service is disrupted

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We are doing the normal getting ready for winter stuff; splitting firewood, canning, weatherizing the buildings and everything's going nicely. Everything except for three...