Warm weather didn’t cure all ills

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Our cold snap has snapped. Wonderful! With temperatures in the low 40's above zero, we were happy campers. Then on my way to the eye doctor for an exam, we made the end of...

We tried our first Theron’s Winter squash

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And boy, was it a treat! First off, this squash is huge. Ours weighed 40 pounds. And the orange meat is so thick I had to have Will cut it open with Mom's old...

Will is starting to clear pasture on our new forty acres

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Old Yeller's working again. Because we have so little snow on the ground, Will has begun to clear the more open section of the new forty acres. Right now, it's covered mostly with grass,...

There’s beauty outside even when the high is -18 degrees

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Sure it's cold, but the sun's out and it looks beautiful today. We had 40 mph winds with snow yesterday and there's lots of drifts. I noticed how pretty they were when I drove...

The snow’s going fast and we’re hurrying to haul barn logs and fence posts

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We will be starting our big barn this spring and Will needed 90 12-foot and 16-foot logs to use as support beams for the haymow floor. We didn't have that many large trees on...