This Little Place Here

Random thoughts and experiences on my little piece of earth. Kids, gardening, chickens, heating with wood, hunting, food preservation and much more!

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Pre-Garden Update

In February, I ordered seeds for this year's garden. Later that month, I sewed the peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, watermelon, ma...

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Boots, A Rope, and Some Puddles

A little boy. A pair of rubber boots. A piece of rope. Lots of puddles. Add some imagination and what do you get? An hour or more of ...

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Done!

Done tapping trees for the year, that is. I went ahead and pulled taps today. Its been about six weeks since I put them in; the buds are s...

Friday, April 6, 2018

Recurring Dreams

For a while now, actually several years, I've been having weird dreams roughly once every month or two that, when I look at them as a gr...

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Yarn Along, April. What?

How did it get to be time for another Yarn Along all ready? March was such a long month (compared to February), but suddenly I'm findin...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

It Began With Twenty Pounds of Alfredo Noodles

Twenty pounds. Twenty freaking pounds! Of 1.5" long noodles. In plastic bags that had been closed with those sticky tie things and a...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Maple Candy

This year's syrup harvest is going well. In just a week of boiling, I netted a little over a gallon of finished syrup. (Which means I ...

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Kris: Living life just a little bit different from most. Growing our food, cooking from scratch every day, mom of four, grandmother of ten--so far, jack-of-all-trades (and master of a few!)

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