Yesterday we went from storing 300 gallons of water to 600!!

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Our friend Tom stopped by yesterday with a bag full of plumbing fittings and proceeded to hook our new water storage tank up, in series, to our old tank.  But first, I dumped a...

Our sunshine continues

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We are amazed at the sunshine we've been having lately after such a cloudy and cold, snowy November. It feels so uplifting to just walk around outside doing odds and ends chores. Will has...

Over the cold and back in the saddle

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Finally, I got over my cold. Boy, was it a doozy! Just in time, too, as today we moved our adopted son, Javid, from his assisted living apartment at Orr to Cook which is...

We’re experiencing a heat wave

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Today it topped out at 27 degrees above zero F! We were thrilled and it sure gave us a hint of the spring to come, here at the very end of January. It sure...

Frost!

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Yep, we had it -- a killing frost. With night temps dipping into the twenties, the garden got fried. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, and corn look so sad, all blackened and droopy. But, luckily,...