Hail and a tornado…almost

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Our carpenter friend, Tom, was here yesterday, working on our latest addition to the house, which will be a living room and entryway, including...

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....

You know it’s spring when…

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All of a sudden, we had our first calf of the year born. She's a beautiful red heifer we named Sassy. We used to...

Q and A: pressure canner or cooker and thick preserves

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Pressure canner or cooker We bought an electric pressure cooker/canner (Power) with the understanding we could use it for canning vegetables. Now online we...

Despite our latest snowstorm, my first peppers are up

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Yep, ANOTHER snowstorm! The weather radio, which we live by, is calling for a major winter storm with up to 14 inches of blowing,...