Firesign Farm

I don't like bathroom rugs with the rubberized non-slip stuff on the bottom. My bathroom isn't big enough to get up to slipping spee...

Dang! Usually I don't have to worry about my cabbages splitting until mid-September. They do just fine on their every-third-day soaker h...

Do you find yourself stalking every laden fruit tree in your entire neighborhood? Do you need a flatbed truck to get your Farmers Market pur...

So, my canning season has started. I don't get fruit crops every year, depending on how our late Spring frosts hit, but this year have v...

Oh, how wonderful! A peaceful, quiet start to the day once again. In addition to our chickens, we also have three guinea fowl: Grey, a feral...

I spent quite a bit of time this weekend sitting on various folding chairs outside. Luckily, it was a beautiful weekend to be doing just tha...

Temperatures are back into our normal summertime range once more - days around 90F, nights around 50F. And our Washoe Zephyr is back again t...

I know, not the normal thing you say in August, is it? But we've got a cold front moving through today and into the evening. Attention w...

We have a busy calendar - lots of things to do as our summer continues. Some of it revolves around a little toy in our garage - a 1972 Honda...

Muscle Powered , a local pedestrian and bicycle advocacy group I'm active in, is staffing a bicycle valet at our downtown Farmers Market...

Friday evening, 6 p.m. We're both tired, and we're hungry. Aries brought home some fish fillets, so I put them over a bed of chopped...

After a couple of days outside in the shade, it was time to get my garlic harvest into shape to store. Usually, when garlic is almost ready ...

I dug my garlic last night. It's a bit earlier than usual, and it never did fall over like it usually does when it's getting ready t...

Summer's finally here, and daytime temps are reaching up towards the 90's. But high desert nights cool off down in the 40's in J...

Frost nailed the blossoms on our sweet cherry tree this Spring, so no black cherries for us this year. We have a standard-size self-pollinat...

Risa, blogger at Stony Run Farm , posted her friend's Homage to Lizards poem in comments for the House Lizards post below - I like the i...

The cat brought in another live lizard a couple of days ago. I heard him mumbly-meowing in the living room, went to see what was the matter,...

I was back in Colorado earlier this year, visiting my mom. She was going through the basement, garage, and closets, getting things together ...

I work in the garden; I volunteer in my community; I get out and about in the area walking and hiking. I take photos and write blog entries ...

Eleven-thirty a.m. and the rain drove me inside. I was out trying to get my "fruiting" garden plants set in - my tomatoes, peppers...