Homestead Happenings

  I usually don’t suffer too much through the time changes, but I was confused on Sunday (March 8) with the switch to DST. I was up early --...

  As I was raking the farm yard on Sunday (March 1), Maynard G. Krebs came to mind. Maynard was the beatnik character played by Bob Denver...

  The Silas Mike wears coveralls when performing his dirtiest tasks and rightly so. He buys them used for a pittance from Blue Ribbon Laun...

  Mike said that Sunday (Feb. 22) would be a warm day (in the 50s) and therefore the best day to work in the wood. So that’s what we did. Ag...

Bess as we walked at the pond last week You never really know for sure what a dog is thinking, and as they get older, an element of dementia...

  Mike, Murray, and I went to the farm again on Thursday (Feb. 12). The guys lifted heavy limbs into the bed of our old pick-up. I helped so...

I’ve made progress on the afghan, or “pattern blanket,” that grandson Silas requested. He and his mom called to face time with me the other ...