We’ve had a real wet spell
After so many nice sunny fall days, suddenly the rains are upon us. I finally got the last of the carrots canned up and, boy, do they look great in the jars. Yesterday I...
Harvest is about finished
Harvest is about finished
When the sun came out this morning after a full week of drizzly, nasty weather, we did a happy dance. I pulled our parsnips (in the rain) and canned them up...
We’ve had a few busy days
On Monday, we traveled five hours to pick up a big load of used foam board insulation that our friend Mike found for us in a roofer's "trash." We had a great road trip...
We got quite a snowfall, but it won’t last
A few days ago we got hammered with about five inches of new, very heavy snow. For a while, you could hardly see the woods around us. We knew it was coming but by...
It never rains but it pours
Our area was so very dry earlier this spring, with the rivers and lakes down alarmingly. Then it started to rain! So far, we've had four inches in two days, another inch, then an...