Parting with our surrey with the fringe on top – Entry #187
When I was seven years old my parents took my sister and me to the Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard to see the musical production of Oklahoma. [...]
The butcher shop is finally finished – Entry #186
Last week I came into the house to announce my victory to Nancy after spending the morning giving the old Hobart meat saw [...]
Restoring a Buffalo hand crank forge – Entry #185
The old forge sat around rusting for thirty years I took it apart piece by piece It worked like new Some thirty-five [...]
Rooster soup – Entry #184
The rooster that drew the long straw Nancy did the rest Anyone who has tried to raise laying hens from tiny yellow chicks has most [...]
Ripening summer tomatoes in January – Entry #183
Tomato vines the evening before the first freeze Ripening in the root cellar The first days of consistent freezing temperatures here at Timber Butte Homestead generally begin just about [...]
Constructing a Jackson Hay Fork – A winters day project – Entry #182
Our neighbors old barn still has a Jackson fork rail Several years ago Tim McFarlane, an old friend of mine gave me half a dozen long handforged steel tines. He [...]
