Firesign Farm

My crocus and earliest daffodils are up and blooming. Fall-planted garlic and shallots are up and growing in the garden, and just received a...

I like to have something to keep my hands busy in the evenings, especially in the winter. We heat with a woodstove in the living room, which...

Even though it's been snowing (lightly, I admit, and really welcome - pretty much all of our natural annual precipitation is from snow) ...

This past fall, we took a road trip to see my mom - crossing Nevada, Utah, and half of Colorado. On the way there, we toured Arches National...

With one of our biggest summer holidays coming up, I thought I'd post a recipe for a great picnic cake. It's one of my mom's rec...

I was doing some cellar maintenance earlier today. I noticed some mold on the stem end of the last zucchini - left to grow huge last summer,...

It should be time to start thinking about getting outside, getting my hands in the dirt once again. The first daffodils are blooming, as is...

I wrote about our Green (for St. Patrick's Day) Green (for Spring) Green (for sustainable) Fashion Show for my latest post on the Simpl...

As long as I had my sewing table and machine all set up, I took care of another little refashioning project today. After its last go-round i...

My home decor is still in my cozy red and white winter theme. The past few days, I made a couple of decorative refashioned items I've h...

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...