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,...
We hope you had a very merry Christmas
We did, here at our homestead. My sister and nephew came from the Duluth area to share Christmas dinner with us. As usual, I cooked much more than we could eat, but that only...
We’re plowing out after a foot of new snow
We listen to the weather radio every morning to check upcoming weather. We'd bought a used haybine at a farm 65 miles southwest of us, so now we can cut our own hay. We...
Our California goats are doing fine in the barn
After jumping out of their indoor greenhouse pen three times in half an hour, we decided to try putting them back in the goat barn. The temperature was warmer (30 above) and it was...
Today was “one of those days”
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...