Look at Bo!  He thinks he is human.  He thinks I bought this rocker on the porch just for him.  He naps there every day.  Here he is waking ...

I don't get my hair cut very often.  Like twice a year, tops.  It hadn't been cut since last May.  I was feeling really shaggy.  I s...

I've been water bath canning for many years, but it has a lot of limitations.  For at least a decade, I've wanted a pressure cooker....

Our power went out twice last week.  Once was from a wind storm.  I'm not sure what caused the second outage.  I decided it was time t...

The last day of school before the Christmas break, something terrible happened.  Poor, innocent Pierce was eating his lunch at school when h...

Ever since the derecho storm in 2012 which caused us to lose power for 8 days, I've been a little obsessed with clever off grid living i...

Over the winter break we made a couple of trips to the library.  The boys enjoy it and I can always use another stack of books to read.  I w...