The smoke finally let up over the weekend after three days of gentle rain showers. I am so grateful to have the unobstructed views again as well as the help watering some of the landscape. This last month has been a smokey and dismal one as air quality remained in hazardous conditions for almost 4…

After weeks of waiting patiently, I now have a working stove top! My father dropped in to do some last minute checking on all of the valves in the house to make sure it would be safe to hook up the stove. Everything turned out fine and we were able to light the stove top…

When I originally began with 5 pullets, I had heard about this strange chicken math within Facebook groups and on miscellaneous blogs. I thought to myself “Oh, I will be fine with five hens!”. Drum roll please… You guessed it! A hen showed himself as a roo and four hens just didn’t seem like the…

Well, this years fire season came slightly later than normal but it hit close to home. Friday afternoon I received a message from a coworker with video footage that a fire had broken out in the area I live. It looks like the ignition was caused by either a back firing vehicle on the road…