Work on the addition has continued, with plenty of help from many supervisors… some wearing cookie pajamas. Once the floor was on, we decided to go ahead and paint it to protect it from the rain. Then the walls went up. And they began, with the help of friends and neighbors, to put the floor…
I guess it is soup season, which means it is recipe season, because it is now cool enough for such things. For much of this past year I have been working on developing and testing recipes for a new cookbook. That book is now in the hands of my publisher – and is available for…
In our book The Doable Off-Grid Homestead, we talk about our progressively built home. What I mean by that is that we started with a 400 square-foot cabin built under an existing roofline. To that we added a kitchen and dining area just shy of 300 square feet. Those were the days when it was…
This is the time of year that things can change on a dime, as they say. I was about to put up a blog post about this dry and thirsty land we live in, but, Lord willing, we may get rain so I’m just gonna’ wait on that one. It’s well into the 90s today,…
