As you know, I was once married to a stuffed animal. No wait. Wrong story. As you know, I’m growing my own vegetables from seed this year. I ordered a bunch from Cubits and Twig & Tree and hoped for the best about a month and a half ago. Right about Easter as a matter [...]

The fella sometimes travels for work. On his last walkabout a few years ago the fella headed to Saskatchewan where he lived for 6 months, flying home every 16 days.  He lived in a typical, small Prairie town.  How small?  I went to visit him once and he wouldn’t let me carry my purse to [...]

        Allow me to introduce you to my friend.  The grub.  As is often the case with my friends, I’m going to have to kill him.  It was this little creature that did this to my lawn …     Grubs are larvae of different insects.  The European Chafer, or Japanese Beetles, [...]

The Anatomy of a chicken. by Karen.   There are several types of chicken combs.  Between my 4 chickens I have 2 single, and 2 pea combs.  Single Combs are dominant in Rhode Island Reds and Pea Combs are often seen in Ameraucana or Araucanas.  My chickens with the Pea  Combs are the ones who [...]

I hate waking up.  Whenever I see a television commercial where some fresh faced woman sits up in bed at 6 a.m. grinning and stretching  like the very idea of jumping out of bed to meet the glorious day is the best part of her life, I want to kill her.  I understand she’ll be [...]

Right off the bat I’ve lied to you.  This isn’t really a recap of Day 2 so much as a a week’s worth of work.  So it’s a week.  Not a day. But that’s all semantics, right? Last week I took a week off from blogging to tackle the job of turning my front yard [...]

So since we’re all up to our elbows in dirt any way, now’s the perfect time to create a little pot of microgreens. Why? Well … only because it’ll change your life, make your cats speak Spanish, improve your hearing and give you the ability to do the splits.  In both directions. Plus, microgreens are [...]

I’ve discovered I’m kind of in love with Photoshop.  Which is proof that you really can go from hate to love.  There’s hope for Brussells Sprouts in my life yet. Photoshop has what might be referred to as a bit of a learning curve.  When you first get the software and fiddle around with it [...]

Because the people at Bogs are so nice and because I am so nice and because you are so nice … I’m giving away a pair of boots. There’s just niceness all around.  If you don’t count wars and famines and such. I got my first pair of Bogs boots last fall.  I’ve done quite [...]

I have to preface this post by saying I have not, ever, in my life … grown a sweet potato.  Have never even thought about doing it actually. Which, according to the rules of the Internet, makes me the perfect person to tell you how to do it. I normally don’t show/do/present/teach you things that I haven’t done myself [...]

Yeah, so … as it turns out, I’m a lunatic.  More on that later.  Well, actually it’ll become apparent as you continue reading. Every year I tackle a big project.  Stupid big.  Permanent injury big.  4 years ago it was throwing out/selling everything we own and redoing our house.  3 years ago it was ripping [...]

Maple syrup!  I’ve done it!  I’ve made Maple Syrup with my own bare hands.  My own  Little House in the Big Woods, slightly stumpy hands. It was actually rereading the Little House series that finally convinced me to make Maple Syrup from the enormous black maple in my backyard.  At the end of every winter, [...]