Along with all the "finishing-up" of outside fall tasks yet to be completed, I've been taking down time for myself to indulge ...

I thought I'd share a few pictures of some of the flowers growing in our new berm boxes.   This white hollyhock has taken a bit of a bea...

Our trail camera caught this sighting of a big, ol' black bear in our back wood working area a couple of nights ago.   I'm happy we ...

But I'm catching up!  So far, I've gotten only seven quarts of dill pickles made, but that's primarily because my pickling cukes...

Seems as though more harvesting from the garden goes on every day.  And it's a good thing because although our days are filled with suns...

  Our weather has taken a turn cooler.  That means I can do some canning in the kitchen without boosting the temperature up above 75°. I did...