Homestead Happenings

Autumn Drab It’s a dark, dreary, chilly Halloween. It will likely be a night not fit for goblins, ghouls, or ghosts. Our Silas, the "...

We're enjoying a quiet weekend at the farm. Sometimes I wonder how other sewists manage the constant barrage of retailer promotions for ...

  Now I must go and build the fire in Dad’s room and wash my late dinner dishes and do all the little things to make the evening comfortable...

You probably aren’t surprised that I can’t find the daffodils Mike and I trenched in at the town house in January. The plan was to dig them ...

Daughter Hallie recently received a windfall of 20 pounds of cosmic crisp apples, so she bought a food mill and made apple butter and sauce....

Evening light Now we’re in town so that we can rest up from two days of hard work at the farm. Friday morning, we loaded the bed of the ol...

These autumn days are lovely. Cool mornings gradually become warm afternoons. I wish I had made a fall planting of lettuce or spinach or som...