(although foggy, rain has stayed away for a few days here) The garden hoses have been pulled out of storage.  It's a task for sure.  We ...

  I had a request to share the final wild violet jelly after it was processed and made, and I am finally getting the photos together to shar...

Last fall, I roasted the last of the mashed potato squash we grew in the garden, and froze them.  I thawed a container for a dinner, and it...

                        (old photo of picked plantain, but I used both broad leaf and narrow-leafed plantain for the salve)   I completely f...

  Mashed potato squash was a new garden treasure to grow last summer.  There is very little information about it online, and very little inf...

A few asked how I restored my cast iron skillet, so this post is about that. It's been a long time since I had to restore cast iron, but...

Peel several cloves of garlic.  You will need a garlic mincer to do this. Line the dehydrator trays with parchment paper. ...

The process of this spring jelly is so intriguing.  It starts out the color of this (above). Wild Violet Jelly 2 cups freshly picked wi...

 Yesterday's sunrise.  Just beautiful! I took some time to pick up two five gallon buckets of our black walnuts.  They have pretty...

I thought the garden we planted two years ago, was the worst year, but I'm starting to feel it's this year's garden.  This pho...

That's it.  I'm declaring it is spring now, which means "porch time" and my furniture is coming out of storage.  Even if I...

Sunday was a full work day here - wood pellets restocked, wood cut, split and stacked, animal feed restocked, and  chicken coop cleaned.  Wa...

Wednesday seemed like my "Monday" cleaning day.  I had a long list of to-do's, and we were out of chicken and goat feed to to...

Today, I start writing a novel in one month.  It's National Novel Writing Month.  I've been participating in this for a few years...

Yesterday morning there was a layer of fog over the fields.  Kind of pretty and perfect for a Halloween-ie type photo.   Wa...

We earned two free nights at the campground.  Not knowing how the weather will be in October, we decided to go.  We still came home during ...

The nail polish on my nails is no longer there.  I'm back to the garden and more preserving again.  It will be a treat when I get the n...

I did not go looking for this recipe.  I found it in a library book - Pearls of Wisdom, Tops, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Hom...

Sunday was a race against the weather.  Sporadic rain was expected, so we worked fast.  The garden looks small in the photo, but in the w...

Although I am still coughing a bit, I donned my winter coat and boots, and finally shoveled out the clothesline.  As most folks driving b...