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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...