Homestead Happenings

Mid-day, July 29   Evening, July 29 -- smoke is worse Afternoon, July 30 -- after the rainstorm Our return to the farm was briefly delayed w...

Friday, July 27 -- Cottonwood Butte obscured by smoke I had never heard of “Summerween” until I saw the term on a quilting website, but I li...

  Who would have thought that in a matter of a day or two the temp would drop 20 degrees? The high was 93 one day and 73 the next. This morn...

  I make a pint of nectar for the hummingbirds every day, and carrying the feeders from the porches to the kitchen and back inevitably resul...

Harvest will likely happen soon Sunday (July 21) was an excessively hot 102. I don’t recall ever seeing it that hot here at the farm. It was...

  People seem startled when I refer to our place  as “the farm.” They seem reluctant to use the word, like it has a bad connotation. But it ...

Smoke and Heat, July 16 The prediction was for a record-breaking spell of 100+ temps in the valley. However, they say that yesterday’s offic...