Little Blog In The Big Woods

My old, old post here, on " No Refrigerator- for 30 Years " - (38, now...) continues to be one that gets very high attention, eve...

Iceland today has announced that they are sending aid to both the European Union and the USA, in the form of a new "Piece Corps"....

We're working through a real blizzard here. I'm getting a few pics, but it's tricky; it's very dang cold, and taking a cam...

For the winter deprived; Smidgen and snow. Yes, sledding means you gotta pull your sled up the hill. That Aermotor in the background is ind...

Sorry to be so quiet- this is a crazy busy time of year for us; one of our crops is chestnuts, and guess when you sell them? The sales win...

Smidgen, who is in kindergarten now,  came home a day ago and announced that "Troy still has talking issues." Which cracked me u...

SciFi writer Larry Niven, in his younger days, proliferated "Finagle's Law", which is basically Murphy's Law (Anything th...

(click for larger) I gotta tell ya, it's really really exciting, when you find your first eggs.  These eggs are even more exciting- all...

One useful aspect to all of us forcibly attending Camp TEOTWAWKI now, is that many people truly are starting to be more mindful of their...

I've been kind of quiet here - when that happens, you can pretty much count on it being due to some kind of distraction or other, gener...

I'm likely to be a little longer between posts here for a while.  We're not in Kansas, and we don't grow corn- but we are movin...

So, we were at the point where 1 of 11 birds had just escaped into the outer world. This was a white bird- and I have little hope f...

The bumps in the road- I sometimes think half my life is spent delivering one form or another of "sorry this is late, but......

Ha, I bet you're expecting another diatribe about the Wall Street Grand Casino.  Nope. At the moment, anyway, we're talking about ac...

Strange to use the phrase here in Minnesota, but Deep Summer is what I've got. It's mostly a phrase from the US South- and it mean...

I drove 2200 miles, to hand deliver my greenhouse product.  Kinda buzzy on return, and overloaded with piled up work.  Once again, too many...

A couple weeks ago Sharon generously exposed herself in public- as a backslider in the garden.  She had let her weeds get out of control.....