Firesign Farm

Demons keep moving - this place is already possessed. No trick-or-treaters at all this year. Then again, the most we've ever had was nin...

On October 31, 1864, despite falling far short of the required number of residents, Nevada became the smallest territorial population to be ...

Don't you sleep better in a clean bed, after a nice warm bath?

It's that time of year. Boris, our German Shorthair pound hound, has been shedding quite a bit (and smelling rather doggy too). This mor...

This is a bushy-tailed woodrat , minus half his tail. We found that a few days ago, stuck to a glue trap in the cellar (he'd chewed off ...

I usually start a couple of okra seeds inside in April, the same time I start my tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. Sometimes they'll tak...

Our first hard freeze was looming last week, so it was time to bring in all the tender crops. Two days prior, I'd cut all the squash and...

Today was bed linens fall laundry day. Here in the high desert, summers are hot and winters cold. In order to sleep comfortably, spring and ...

I'd pulled the soaker hoses off the rest of the onions a few weeks ago, and bent down those tops still upright. After a couple of weeks ...

I heard a series of loud pops. I thought neighbor kids had set off a string of big firecrackers in the open dirt field across our north fenc...

I think every garden, no matter how large or small, needs a place to sit. Maybe just as a place to rest a bit, or your spot to enjoy the sig...

I'm very happy with my Walla Walla onion trial this year. The plants, ordered in February, received mid-March, and planted in early A...

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 ...