Our wolves were back
Well, the rest of the family, I think. We saw four young wolves on the beaver pond the morning before last. (You can tell they aren't adults as their tails haven't "fluffed" out yet.)...
I canned up the first batch of asparagus yesterday
I'd planned on canning asparagus for a couple of days then got busy, bringing in all the flats of plants off of the back deck. The forecast for the night was a frost warning...
We’ve had such a pretty week
Due to high humidity and cloud cover at night, we've had beautiful hoar frost on the trees, weeds, and fence lines every morning. What a beautiful sight to wake up to, especially when there...
We dove to -10 degrees last night
And it looks like that's going to be warm, compared to tonight. The high tomorrow is supposed to be about that. Brr! We're definitely hauling in more firewood, including some long-burning ash for overnight....
Our snow is here to stay, I’m thinking
We do our outside chores then come inside to work hard at shelling corn, winnowing away the chaff in the wind outside, then stock both our shelf bins and seed packets, print out labels,...