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...
After hunting season we’ve still got plenty of deer
We just had a snow storm mixed with freezing rain. Several deer came down the trail below the house, heading for the horse pasture and the round bales of hay we have out there....
It’s -12° and our chickens are laying plenty of eggs
We're pretty happy with our new batch of pullets. This spring we bought a mixed flock of Cuckoo Marans, White Cochins, Black Sex Links, White Rocks, and Red Laced Cornish. The Cuckoo Marans were...
The beavers were right, again.
This fall, I was asked what our beavers' actions told us about the coming winter. I replied that there should be cold temperatures and lots of snow. At first I thought they'd lied; we...
The waterline is buried and we are on to other projects
Will finished burying the waterline after insulating it well. But even our heavy duty backblade just kicked rocks up when he tried to grade it nicely. However, his friend has a landscape rake that...