One of our cats, Roxie, has been sleeping in the garage for the past several months instead of her cat house on the back porch. Now that the weather is getting colder I wanted to quickly make an insulated home for her that I could leave in the garage. I used two Sterlite storage bins
We planted some store bought ginger root just to see if we could grow it ourselves. I think we planted about a half dozen small pieces of ginger this past spring. Although this is a shade loving plant we left it out in the garden which gets full sun for most of the day. The
We were having a garage sale at my parents when we found three kittens in a culvert running under the road in front of their house. Four white paws The effect of Sarah belly scratching one of the new kittens…She’s konked out.
Here is a recipe for homemade mayo that we think tastes better than store bought. Blend well using a hand-held electric whisker/blender in a wide-mouth quart sized mason jar: 2 eggs at room temperature 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1 Tbsp white vinegar 1/2 tsp seasoned salt 1/2 tsp dry mustard power 1/4 tsp garlic powder
We installed a wood stove in the cabin last winter. I’ve never heated a house with wood and it was surprisingly easy. It was nice to wake up in the morning and get a fire going. We would sit and watch the fire while drinking our coffee, talking and trying to shake the cob webs
It’s been too long since I’ve updated the blog, but here’s some of what we’ve been up to this summer. Click on any picture to see a larger view. Sarah, Ben, and I harvesting about 50 lbs of sweet potatoes from a 4’x8′ raised bed. We inoculated Oak logs with Shiitake spawn this spring. We
Sarah wanted to document the state of our 2015 garden by recording a video at the beginning of July. She does talk briefly about the chicken coops and the compost bins as well. This is only our second year of gardening, so I suspect we will look back at this video and have a few
In an attempt to follow the advice in country living magazines, Sarah is braiding our garlic harvest. She said that she would have a clue how to do it had she raised two girls instead of boys.
The presentation called “The Primacy Of Consciousness” by Peter Russell walks through an amazing paradigm shift. It is definitely worth a watch.
… the second best time is now. In April we invested in 10 new fruit trees: 5 apple, 3 pear and 2 peach. We were supposed to pick any young fruit off so that root growth would take priority for the first two years, but we left this peach growing. And another peach. And just