Back in January I had a premonition that I might be new additions of some kind to the farm… Yeah. I even put it on…

I’ve been doing a lot more writing over the last couple of weeks than one would probably suspect given how little I’ve posted to this…

For a piece of property that leaves almost no time for just sitting around, I’ve been oddly obsessed with creating places to sit around the…

Living on this little farm is an ongoing exercise in Things I Am Not Prepared For. Or, in this case, Things I Thought I Was…

Well, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but the upside of spending my evenings trying to get that damned vegetable garden under control is that……

Of all the things I talked about working on over my “break” a couple of weeks ago, the vegetable garden was noticeably absent. Or, as I’ve…

If truck engines and bees, and then planting a small vineyard and a new garden in front of the house weren’t enough… I also celebrated…

I know some people like throwing horseshoes or beanbags around, but out here if I’m going to throw something at a target it’s going to…

The first part of my vacation (well, really just the first day) was all about reorienting myself to what’s been going on around here. Spring…

One of my favorite traditions around here–my “gift” to myself, if you will– is that around my birthday I take some time off from my…

A few weeks ago I mentioned that things were about to get real exciting on the farm… One of those exciting things was that I…

If all of the sink drama occurring two weeks ago wasn’t enough, in the middle of all of that (and a week after I expected them)…

As a general rule, I do not get excited about things that are related to doing the dishes. (Shocking, I know.) I mean, unless the…

It’s been 3 weeks since I’ve said anything meaningful about the kitchen, mostly because I haven’t felt like there’s been anything meaningful going on in…

It’s been an incredibly stressful couple of weeks around here– the kind of weeks where I feel like I’m just barely keeping things together– and…