Today it’s really warm … up to 33 degrees

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We've been having cold, snowy weather lately, including some below zero days. On one of those cold nights, our friend's supermarket burned. As it's the only one in Cook (our nearest town) a whole...

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...

So far we’ve had an on-and-off-again winter

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Our temps started out real cold; down to -25 and windy. Brrr. But lately we've been having much more moderate temps and we're maybe going to hit 40 above this weekend. Translated, that means...

Our tomatoes and peppers are growing nicely indoors, but it’s snowing outside

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But that doesn't worry us as it's already 38° F and warming up fast. In fact by the weekend, it's supposed to be in the 50's — with rain! A whole lot of our...