Extracting honey made simple – Entry #128
My bee friend Mike Lutz Our first two gallons of homegrown honey Last April after attending a brief beekeeping seminar I brought our first beehive home to [...]
Root cellar upgrades & improvements – Entry #127
Exterior & interior doors Mold formed on canning jar caps The six inch vent pipe In December of 2008 I wrote a series of blogs concerning our experience [...]
Meet the R.O.M.E.O.’s – Retired-Old–Men-Eating–Out
For the last two years Nancy and I have been blessed by an annual visit from the Romeos. The Romeos (an acronym for Retired Old Men Eating Out) are a group of guys from the [...]
A grand Jack-O-lantern carving party – Entry #126
What do you do with a root cellar full of pumpkins? I guess there are a lot of things that could be done such as preserving pie filling, making dozens of pumpkin pies, or you [...]
Chive biscuits – Entry #125
After the shock of the first fall freeze nearly everything in the garden withered into mounds of brown heaps except the root crops (carrots, onions, beets & potatoes) [...]
The last harvest – Entry #124
Last week our local weather man reported that fall was ready to fall. The temperatures throughout September had been delightful, but as October opened its door a cold front came rushing through it. On October [...]
