And then my computer crashed

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Things were going along nicely … I was pulling in lots of dry beans, canning more corn, and taking seeds from our many tomato...

Everything is big here!

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Everything in the garden is big this year. Our hay crop is abundant, the peppers in the hoop house are awesome, and the Hopi...

It never rains but it pours

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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...

Our cold winter is here

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After such nice a week or two, winter's back. Last night it was down to 12° F with a thirty-mile-an-hour wind. I'm so glad...

What does a homesteader do for fun?

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For many years, I've been working on a series of Western novels, which have mostly been sitting in a box in the closet as...