August 31, 2012 farm life Big Empty Heads I dunno about you but I've just about had it with this incredibly long and incredibly hot summer. Sheesh! At present its over 90*. Again...
August 30, 2012 farm life Tomato of Doom Doom I say! I dunno there's just something hinky with this tomato. Its just not right. I think its a Tomato of Doom. Happy Thursday ever...
August 29, 2012 dogs The Giant Bubby Pepper Poke Disaster Well friends, we've had our first casualty in The Great Pepper War of 2012. It was just two days ago during the last and final surge ag...
August 28, 2012 Foundations of Vibrant Health Does everyone know my pal, Freemotion? Did you see the dramatic 56 POUNDS her husband recently lost ? By eating bacon? Now that's MY k...
August 27, 2012 farm life Fall Planting and Shelling Beans Someone asked me yesterday if there was still time for fall planting? Sure! There's always time for more planting. As you know I've...
August 24, 2012 kitchen The Great Pepper War of 2012 Friends, I am slain. The Capsaicin Menace They got me. Day Three of the Salsa Surge was brutal. By days end the kitchen was destroyed, my fe...
August 21, 2012 kitchen Picking Peppers Wow! What a haul! Ten gallons of peppers picked in nothing flat. We drove several towns over and went to a Upick produce place. We really lo...
August 20, 2012 For our Dear Sister in the Westlands Editors Note: A dear friend lost her beloved companion this morning - her dog Deirdre died in her arms. We send our friend our love and thou...
August 17, 2012 farm life Ohio's Stories from the Great Depression No time to blog today - I'm totally sucked into this amazing website. Have you seen Ohio's Department of Aging Great Depression Sto...
August 16, 2012 rant The Best News Story EVER Did everyone see this yesterday? As long as I live there will never be another news story better than this. Of course they got the headline...
August 15, 2012 pigs Moving The Bacon Bits to Pig Paradise Yesterday we achieved one of this summer's biggest objectives....we finally moved The Bacon Bits to their new pig preserve - it was like...
August 14, 2012 rant A couple articles on the drought I'm heading off to thin turnips this morning... but first a couple articles on the drought. This first article is pretty thought provoki...
August 13, 2012 make savings Laundry Theft? What's with that? Did everyone see this story a while ago about how thieves were stealing thousands of dollars of name brand laundry soap ? I have a hard tim...
August 11, 2012 kitchen Canning Frenzy This is what a canning frenzy looks like. The kitchen is utterly destroyed. Every surface looks like this..... Just some of the 10 gallons ...
August 10, 2012 farm life kitchen Peps and Zucchini Not a peck but a nice bucket of peppers...... These are mostly Marconi and Hungarian sweet and wax peppers. The other day I also brought i...
August 9, 2012 farm life So it rained here Awesome. Would have been great, tho, if it would have rained this much over a couple hours but this was about 30 minutes worth. That's O...
August 8, 2012 farm life Mid-Summer Farm Update Ok I know its not officially "mid-summer" but we're rushing headlong into the end of summer and a lot has happened.... with mo...
August 7, 2012 Not about farming: Run. Hide. Fight. Last week t he news had a clip about a safety training video created for the City of Houston . It was made to help employees understand what...
August 6, 2012 kitchen How To Can Tomato Sauce If you've been hesitant to get into canning now is the perfect time to take that leap! Making and canning your own tomato sauce is a gre...
August 3, 2012 farm life kitchen Tomato time! No time to talk - its Tomato Season! I'm hauling them in by the bucket load...... Its like an Easter Egg hunt - the vines are positively...
August 1, 2012 kitchen Peach-Pepper Jelly Would you look at this! Isn't it beautiful? Peach jammy-jelly with beautiful flakes of spicy red pepper... and its delish! I've bee...