We dodged a big storm

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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...

Today was “one of those days”

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It started out pretty nice with a partly cloudy sky and no new snow. Besides, the temperature was 20 degrees above zero and was forecast to go nearly to 30. So I made a...

We finally got a little rain

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We finally got a decent shower after being in a drought for more than two months. But, thankfully, we have water and have been able to water from two wells and our irrigation system....

Harvest continues despite our drought

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From a too-rainy early summer, we've moved on to drought. It seems the weather gets stuck in one mode or another lately. So we broke out the irrigation pump last week and got everything...

Whew, even we are getting pretty tired of sub-zero temperatures

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For the last two weeks, we've been confronted by a period of really cold weather. For instance, on Friday, our high was -18! And the low? -40 F and that's temperature, not windchill. So everything...