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A Home Grown Journal: It's A Mess But Ya Gotta Start Somewhere

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. It's A Mess But Ya Gotta Start Somewhere. I took a bunch of pictures to chronicle our deck demolition as we go. Here's the deck from the south side. We've had flower beds on the front and both east and west ends. This is the west end of the deck with a Sugar Maple growing next to it. One of the reasons the maple tree has to go is that we have grown to. Another sad tree story. This was a Nanny Berry tree off the southeast corner of the deck. The main part of the tree died ...All t...

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A Home Grown Journal: July 2014

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Wa-Hoo, Let's Celebrate! We finished filling the big wood shed today. Completely full. Now we have two wood sheds full to the brim with wood cut, split, stacked and (hopefully) drying for this winter. It took us about one full month longer to accomplish this task than we had estimated it would. It wasn't that we didn't keep working on it. Too many days of rain interfered with our efforts. But now (whew! It's done, and we can relax a bit on that count. The red cabbages are slower...

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A Home Grown Journal: November 2014

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Friday, November 28, 2014. The Day After The Day Before. I need to hire a blog post editor.). Anyone else getting really irritated with all the Black Friday hype on the Internet and in local papers? It bugs me that it all exemplifies and amplifies the materialistic spend! Society we live in. I remember the times years ago when there were no sales on anything (! Time to give some assistance to Papa Pea who is bringing wood up to the wood box on the porch. Then to fill the two wood holding racks next t...

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A Home Grown Journal: Perfect Weather for Sleeping - Not Good in May!

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Perfect Weather for Sleeping - Not Good in May! We can safely say the forest fire danger of the past several weeks is gone. We've been having successive days of gray, gloomy skies and plenty of rain. Large puddles are standing everywhere outside. This morning the temperature was 37 degrees . . . with snowflakes falling. Good gardening weather does not come early to the north woods. This spring weather (ha! Well, anyway, this weather is good for something. Sleeping! It's so exceptio...

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A Home Grown Journal: August 2014

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Friday, August 29, 2014. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About . . . A couple of days ago (or maybe it was many days ago, because you know how time flies when you're spending quality time in the kitchen with boat loads of fresh produce . . . day after day after day), Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart. Asked me if I would explain how I planted, harvested and preserved my shell peas. However, putting these thoughts of my inadequacies aside, let's talk peas. Supposedly it's not absolutely necessary to p...

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A Home Grown Journal: Having The Mumps

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Saturday, May 9, 2015. I don't know what in the world made me think of it today, but when I was in eighth grade I had the mumps. It spread like wildfire through my class that year so I wasn't the only one to suffer. But, oh my, suffer I did. It's no wonder so many of us were out of school with the mumps. A person who contracts the virus is contagious for six days before symptoms start to show and nine days after they start. What are the symptoms? Made me one very unhappy camper. I'm sure there are thousa...

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A Home Grown Journal: Happy Mother's Day to Me!

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Happy Mother's Day to Me! Yep, that's the way things have been going around here for about the past week or so. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. Belated that I may be, I wanted to post a picture of my daughter's Mother's Day gift to me. Can you see what it is? Nope, nothing to do with the two bags hanging on the inside of my quilt room door. She made me a switch plate cover especially designed for my quilt room! Pretty cool, huh? I sure think so. Oh no not snow! That is a very...

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Wild About Nature: April 26, 2015 Spring's a Tease..........as usual........

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Sunday, April 26, 2015. April 26, 2015 Spring's a Tease.as usual. This, is a "leucistic" junco. This means the bird has no pigment in its feathers. An albino, has no pigment. It has been hanging around for just over a week now. There is a normal colored junco behind it. Once, a number of years ago, I had a cowbird hanging around that had the same issue. It is always interesting to see one of those variations in our wildlife. Never say never, I guess. I will leave you with a shot of Betsy, by a reflecting...

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e-i-e-i-omg!: Question for my jammin' (and jellyin') friends

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Middle-aged homesteader meets reality. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Question for my jammin (and jellyin) friends. I am a challenged jam and jelly maker, at best. My red currant jelly is NOT jelly. It's jam-ish. Can I rescue it, or am I stuck with eight half-pints of glaze? July 25, 2015 at 7:44 AM. You can re-can it. Just use the same processing. If that doesnt work, you can always use it as ice cream topping 😊. July 25, 2015 at 10:16 AM. July 26, 2015 at 6:11 AM. July 26, 2015 at 9:34 AM. Following an over...