I’ve got the spring cold — Yuck!

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I guess it's going around; everyone I talk to either has it or just got over it — the spring cold. Nose runs like a firehose and cough, cough, cough. I finally went to...

Harvest is about finished

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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...

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 varieties. I brought two Bozeman watermelons to the house that...

Today it’s sloppy outside so we’re working inside

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Temperatures have been in the 40s yesterday and today, so that foot of new, heavy, wet snow is nearly gone. It left puddles like lakes and a river running down the hill toward the...

The pumpkin/corn patch is now fenced

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Will, Krystal, and I finished hanging the last two sections of the 6-foot-high fencing on the new pumpkin/corn patch. We had decided to wait for a more doable cash flow but the deer were...