Bonnie’s Favorite Chew Toy!
Both of our dogs love chewing on any brassica stalks. Weird!
Thanksgiving Turkey In a Tiny Oven
Sarah and I are enjoying our Thanksgiving Holiday alone at our house this year due to a rise in Covid-19 cases. Sarah’s school has gone back to all virtual classes just recently for an unknown period of time. The hospitals in Tennessee are straining to handle all the influx in cases. We couldn’t fit our
First Frost! Vegan Pesto Recipe
We just had our first frost. We harvested all of our remaining basil, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs in preparation for our first frost. Sarah made our pesto recipe with all of the basil. I have some kind of reaction to pine nuts and they change my tastebuds so that sweet tastes bitter for
AMIR Wireless Refrigerator & Freezer Alarm
We have two chest freezers in the workshop. I’ve heard stories of people losing a freezer full of food due to power loss or freezer malfunction. We wanted a way to monitor those freezers from our house, which is about 60 feet away. We have been using this AMIR Wireless Refrigerator/Freezer Alarm for over 2
Bought a Used Freezer….It had a Problem
With so many people growing or expanding their vegetable garden this year it has caused shortages of several things in our area. Seed companies are sold out of some seeds including mail order and local suppliers. Canning jars and lids are in really short supply. New and used freezers are really hard to find in
Garden Harvest Log
We have a clipboard by the front door. Everything we bring in from the garden is weighed and recorded with the date. At the end of the year I’ll enter it into a spreadsheet so we can see how many pounds of each crop we harvested and our total for the year.
Installing Bees In A Layens Horizontal Hive
We finished building our Layens hives and installed our first swarm of bees that we caught. The swarm moved into an empty 7 frame bait hive (no pre-drawn comb on the frames) on May 1st or 2nd. So, in just under 3 weeks they have a quarter to a third of 6 frames drawn with
Catching Local Bee Swarms
In March my dad and I put out 3 honey bee swarm traps at my parents’ property. My dad has been watching the traps and recently said he’s seen activity at all 3 traps. Sarah and I went over today to check the traps and found that 2 of the three traps have a colony
Simple DIY Firewood Storage Rack
We heat the house with a wood stove, so I’m frequently stacking or splitting wood. We have a couple years of wood already cut and covered, but I’ve been working in the back of the property and needed another place to store firewood. We have termites really bad here, so it’s important to store any
Making Lumber From Downed Trees
We had a large storm hit our area late October 2019. I’m still milling lumber from trees that were blown down or severely damaged from that storm. Today I’ll be working on milling 7 pine logs (8 1/2 ft long) into 1 1/2 inch thick boards. The stump is sticking out of the ground on