Firesign Farm

Barely a week past the solstice, but the chickens can tell the days are already getting longer - two eggs yesterday, another one today. We l...

I plant one Habanero chile plant each summer. The peppers are so hot that I don't need very many - enough for a batch of hot sauce, a fe...

 I've been learning a bit about beading and some simple jewelry-making techniques, and acquired a couple starter tools. I've also be...

I was out riding my bicycle around a quiet neighborhood of one-acre lots. As I rode past one house, with lots of lawn surrounded by big tree...

Pink banana squash is the best large winter storage squash I've found for growing in my high desert climate. I have the room to let the ...

I recently spent a Soroptimist "girls weekend getaway" in a vacation rental house up at South Lake Tahoe. Arranged by our District...

Aries' injured finger is doing much better. He got the cast removed, and the stitches out. He now has a molded rigid plastic splint wra...

We very rarely buy furniture new. Other than the electronics, just about all of our furnishings are second-hand or thrift shop finds, worn c...

I got out today, and gathered up the rest of my hoses. It was windy, but not too cold, so the hoses were still somewhat pliable. I don't...

We've shut down and drained the yard water system. I got some clean-up work done out in the garden this afternoon - rolling up hoses, st...

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...