We really are loving our warm weather

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Although far from true spring here in the northland, temperatures in the forties sure feel wonderful. This weekend, I canned up almost all of the year-old hamburger in our basement freezer. I saved up...

I’m hunting up my pepper seeds and my jiffy pellets

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It's mid-February (does THAT seem possible?) and pretty soon I'll be starting my peppers and petunias. They take a long time to get big. After the peppers are about 4 inches tall, I put...

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 half-bushels of peaches I bought "cheap" because the market owner...

%$^%#^()&) COMPUTERS!!!!!

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Needless to say, I've been having computer issues.  You see my Vista won't let me attach photos to articles or e-mails, including my blog.  We've tried everything humanly possible, but finally Dave said to...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

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We've been hoping for a respite from our darned catalog's mailing list problems and thought it was done; then today we found out somehow the internet fairies absconded with a third of the list!...