Another cold snap lets me work inside this week

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Our temperature dived way down to a low of 7 degrees! Not fun to work outside so I did a lot of transplanting; seven flats worth of tomatoes and four flats of peppers. Boy,...

Oh yeah, winter’s definitely here

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Although we have had a great fall with little snowfall until now and relatively decent temperatures for northern Minnesota, winter's definitely here. I'm just recovering from a real nasty bug and poor Will's been...

We have a new baby

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Wednesday, our half Jersey heifer, Surprise, had her baby -- a pretty heifer we are calling Fern because she's just the color of dead fern leaves. And we know because that night both she...

As usual, our beavers were right

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We had a very hot, dry summer. Around here, some swamps are dry and even rivers are showing more rocks than water. Yep, we got rain. But only about 1/10 of an inch or...

We had a very quiet Christmas

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Due to a big ice/sleet storm which deposited ½ inch of ice in some locations and more than two inches of sleet at our house, only our son, David, his girlfriend, Ashley, and Javid...