January 18, 2013 kitchen The Great Beet Crisis of 2013 This is it. The very last jar of my home canned beets. I'll soon be beetless. Then what? Wandering around aimlessly looking for some kin...
January 17, 2013 farm life rant Winter Worries Winter worries are different than summer worries, don't you think? During the summer I worry about the farm animals flopping over dead ...
January 15, 2013 rant store Life is Good If you follow me over on ' the facebook ' then you know I'm always spreading optimism by liking and sharing the Life is Good pro...
January 14, 2013 farm life Three Things About Winter For the last couple of days we've had weirdly warm, spring-like temperatures. It's more like April out there than January. I was a l...
January 11, 2013 cats kitchen Soup and Nicholas Looks like I need another day on the couch. Today I have soup.....and Nicholas. Talk about homemade soup! Step one was go and butcher the ch...
January 10, 2013 cats kitchen Warmer Weather and Sandwiches We are expecting the weirdest weather ever in the next couple of days. Instead of looking like the Ice Planet Hoth... we are going to have s...
January 8, 2013 kitchen The First Duck Egg ... Becomes Pasta Isn't it beautiful? We got the first duck egg of the season yesterday. It's very very small and incredibly beautiful. So of course I...
January 7, 2013 goats Confessions of a Secret Goat Butcherer It began casually enough... I knew someone who knew someone. Did I have the goods? Did they have the cash? “Burner” cell phone numbers were ...
January 6, 2013 farm life Hope Springs This morning I notice a little hope springing up from what's left of our snow.... This is the wheat that I planted down in the the old h...
January 3, 2013 kitchen The Best Gift. EVER. It is THE greatest Christmas gift I have ever received, or will ever receive.... and it's not even a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in ...