Firesign Farm

After writing about how our chickens thrive in their simple unheated, uninsulated house in the winter, I wanted to write a bit more about ho...

Our night temperatures lately have been in the teens (-10C), the days barely above freezing. Our coop has no heat or artificial light, but o...

The drizzly rain of the past couple of days turned to a wet, sloppy snow last night and on into today. When Aries walked down to the store t...

This morning the clouds were hanging low - I could see across the valley, but not the hillsides above. The rain had stopped, but everything ...

Rain. All day. Drizzly, drippy rain. We have a plastic skylight right above my computer chair, and I can hear it pitty-patting down. If we d...

Joy, from Perth, Australia, wrote that her youngest son and grandson, both in their 20's, were coming this way and asked what there was ...

During the 1950s and '60s, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and ach...

I have a few items nagging at me. I've had some questions asked and received some emails - I haven't forgotten you. Now that I'm...

It was nice outside today. While I spent the afternoon inside doing the Financial Reports for my Soroptimists' Club, Aries was outside t...

I belong to Muscle Powered , a small, grassroots, pedestrian and bicycle advocacy group. We had our annual planning meeting/potluck brunch t...

Alrighty then - time to get back into the blogging rhythm, I guess. I had a nice visit with my sister in the Bay Area. This is one of my fav...

I'm visiting my sister, in California's San Francisco Bay Area, for a couple of days. I drove out of a blue sky day where our snow i...

I check in on what's happening with Annette, over at the Ward House quite often. She wrote about being unexpectedly stranded by the wea...

After we went to bed Christmas Eve, we could hear the wind howling and the pattering of raindrops throughout the night. Before daybreak, it ...

The traditional Christmas Eve supper at our house growing up was always Oyster Stew. Basically just canned oysters (we were in land-locked C...

I haven't done any experiments (mainly because I don't, and won't, grow any control veggies to compare against), but I really th...

A lot of my Christmas recipes are traditional family hand-me-downs - Grandma's Meringue Cookies, Mom's fruitcake recipe with just ca...

Ok, we don't have children, but Albert and Boris, our house pets, were just so cute this morning curled up together between the tree and...

It's looking a bit more like winter outside today, a dusting of snow on the ground. For some of the chickens, it's their first exper...

I spent about 4 hours today standing outside the Governors Mansion here in town, as a volunteer working the Drive-Through Holiday Food Drive...