We hauled our first beef animal to the meat plant
Our "little" calves that we raised a year and a half ago now weigh a thousand pounds, plus! And they're not so "cute." One of them, a black Jersey-Holstein or Angus cross was pretty...
We’re fighting back
Because we use a lot of gas on our homestead for the bulldozer, generator, and tractor, not to mention the tiller, ATV, and gravel truck, we are really reeling from the hefty gas prices....
We had a happy Thanksgiving and a foot of snow
As we were under a winter blizzard warning, we had no company for Thanksgiving. But I still cooked up a storm, anyway. And finally, after years of trial and error...mostly error…found out how to...
Today our high is -5
We've definitely been having some cold weather lately. At night, the lows have regularly been -30° F with the highs still below zero. The house creaks and cracks as the logs contract with the...
I just got back from having a great visit
I haven't seen my step-daughters, Randie and Tricia, for several years, or my granddaughter and her kids either. So when I learned Randie was flying in from Boston to visit her daughter and grandkids...