Winter is on the way.  These very short beautiful snippets of a sunrise are coming to an end.  We enjoyed one, mostly likely the last, gri...

  I took a walk out to the bell peppers, and brought in the last 28 of them.  Even the smaller ones are very thick and smell wonderful. As f...

(2018 photo, the last time we grew them on the homestead) There was a point when organic butter at the grocery store became horribly high pr...

The previous rain left things very wet outside, so the inside got the attention it needed all day Friday. I roasted 1 larger pie pumpki...

I have never made pumpkin soup of any sort, so this year I did. I roasted one entire pumpkin for this soup.  The recipe in my "pil...

For the first time in a long, long, long time, I woke up to a day where I had nothing on the list that could be done (for one reason or an...

I had a bit of a delayed start in my day at home yesterday.  I had another follow up at the new doctor.   Grad daughter drove me, s...

I woke up Monday to a warm 63°F and later a high of 87°.  And guess what?   We started the "resurrection" of the flower b...

My go-to produce stand had a few more pie pumpkins, so I stopped in and picked them up. He's getting to c lose it up I think. Th...

I purchased 8 pie pumpkins so far, and roasted them all for puree.  The first 6  weighed in about 1 5 . 71 lbs.  I typically cut them a...