Firesign Farm

This year's garlic has been harvested, cleaned, and braided. The braid is now hanging in the cutout between kitchen and living room, whe...

When I first started gardening, I grew vegetables. I began slowly - little patches of lettuce and peas, then a tomato plant. Even though I e...

I'm having some successes, and some failures out in the garden. That's usually the case around here, too. The garlic is looking good...

Last week still saw night temperatures below freezing, and even a couple of days with snowflakes swirling about. The plants I started inside...

A couple of months ago, we lost one of our chickens. And the bobcat sightings have since still been occurring from time to time around our n...

I've heard ants are attracted to electricity, but never seen any evidence until today. I started my tender vegetable seedlings inside my...

Our home is just rural enough to be beyond the sidewalks, streetlights and sewer system; just urban enough that the parking lot lights of th...

A series of cold fronts coming through dropped our low night temperatures into the mid 20'sF. While once again frustrating my dreams of ...

I got my indoor seeds planted today. I've found eight to ten weeks is long enough to get everything up and growing and hardened off, rea...

The plan for today was to get my seeds started inside. But when Aries' planned outing got canceled, I changed my plans in order to take ...

It's time to start tender seedlings inside, to be set out in the garden after Memorial Day. But I was out of my seed starter mix, so tod...

The earliest daffodils are blooming, and now today, the Shiro plum tree. A couple of blooms have opened on the apricot. Buds are swelling on...

I started a garden realignment last year, switching two "S" shaped garden beds over to three long straight ones. Aries ran the rot...

There were feathers wafting about in front of the house today - not a good sign. I did a chicken roll call and Flopsy, one of our Buff Orpin...

The couple inches of snow we woke up to yesterday had pretty much melted by noon. A quick afternoon flurry while I was at work dropped a cou...

The only spot of color outside my windows are the finches sheltering underneath the snow on the bare branches of the lilac. But I have faith...

I finished the herb garden cleanup today. The barometer falling, a chill wind had come up overnight, harbinger of the storm headed our way. ...

Snow is in the forecast for later this week, but today was clear, warm, and still. I decided to do a bit of spring cleaning in the herb gard...

Onions end up in just about everything I cook for dinner, quite often in breakfasts too, and many of my canning recipes. Despite numerous at...

I don't have children. I married rather late in my childbearing years, to someone who knew he didn't want children. I was ambivalent...