Just your run-of-the-mill Nor-easter!
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Part 3: Video Update on Building a Root Cellar in the Basement
An update on our Root Cellar (video post)!
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Around the Ol’ Homestead in January
Some photos. It’s been snowing. It’s been blowing. It’s been cold.
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Word for 2021: Order
A few years back I dropped the ritual of setting up New Year’s Resolutions (and ultimately, abandoning most of them). Last year I decided to embrace the concept of “word for the year” instead. In 2020, it was Vision – which was perfect, because my big gift for Christmas 2019 was a Canon PowerShot SX530 HS camera. In 2021, my word for the year is: Order.
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Really, Gert? Molting now? (Plus a short video!)
Never count your chickens before they are… Oh, wait. That saying speaks to something else. And yet, it’s a bit appropriate here. At the end of December, I was thinking to myself how fortunate we’ve been that our chickens have not had any trouble in the past year. Everyone is healthy and well.
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Putting Food into Order
With 2020’s various food shortages reminding everyone of how fragile our food (industrial) system really is, we returned to some good habits that had been put out of practice.
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