pile of o'melays

our neighbor tom took us canoeing sunday. the kids loved it. the water was a little low and we scraped bottom a few times but mostly it was ...

click me spring garden

our tomatoes got a bad case of aphids. i mixed an organic spray that included neem oil and sprayed the plants. later that evening the neem ...

In January my in-laws moved to a new place. I helped him dig his pond out--I mostly watched and mike drove the scoop tractor. There were cat...

This is the begining of our root cellar. Our neighbor came over with his back hoe tractor. He dug the whole thing in a couple of hours. The ...

I worked 20 plus feet in the air most of the day Thursday. I was a bit scared at first but I told myself that I've been in worse height ...

i admit it, i was wrong. i guessed it was a girl. i might hear the end of it by the time he is born. Actually I'm happy to see a healthy...

We have an appointment for an ultrasound tomorrow. I hope to find a healthy baby and of course it would be nice to findout the sex. It is ex...

Negotiations with the company that I was, and still am, hoping to work for have slowed to a snails pace. Ben, my current boss, has expressed...

we finished building the chicken tractor today. it is made out of 10 pieces of electrical conduit, 10 feet of 1 1/2" PVC, 10 feet of 4...

my website finally has a new home--thanks to donna. i uploaded my resume and made it the first page. the rest of it will have to be parsed t...

this is what heaven smiling on our farmstead looks like.

we'll try them all and decide which one works the best. the first tomatoes that don't get immediately eaten will get the salsa test....

this is my lovely wife tabitha. she is really starting to get that pregnant woman glow. not that she isn't normally lovely but there is ...

it's official, we have named him merlin. yeah, i know the arthurian legend and the oedipal implications. he will be on the dinner table ...

it's 2 am and the cow has started giving birth. it seems that i'll be up the rest of the night. 3:40 a jersey bull born about an hou...

i worked with danny on timber framing today. it was very pleasant. nice hard work and many new things to see. mostly i just enjoyed their co...

is a wonderful mom -nurses a million times a day -reads countless books to the kids -wipes several butts -picks up after them washes dishes ...

we planted eighty or so tomato plants this morning. we were expecting a rain storm and wanted to get them in the ground to benefit from the ...

we broke down and bought a tiller. we were going to try and garden it without a tiller but it became crystal clear that we were having anoth...