If the drought wasn’t enough, now we have grasshoppers
I've been noticing way more grasshoppers around this year than normal. And now they're getting bigger, you really notice them as every step you take, you send up a big cloud before you. I...
We’re having to reduce our watering
Although our gardens sure need it, we've had to reduce our watering as the hole below David's cabin will only support ½ hour running of two sprinklers once a day now and our barn...
We have water!
When you live off grid, you need to learn to color outside the lines. Our water lines, both from our new well at the barn and our house well, froze and we were without...
We dodged a big storm
Thankfully our projected freezing rain and 8 inches of snow turned south before reaching us today. That's especially nice as yesterday David was able to throw together his very own storage barn. Well, a...
Now it’s snow, snow, and more snow
That's what I get for complaining about all the rain we got in October and the first week in November. So, yes, the rain did stop; it froze and is now snow! You thought...