Rural Revolution

As most long-time readers know, I don't care for fashion . I have zero interest in clothes , and in fact suffer from severe clothing bli...

I caught an interesting article a couple days about about an upcoming broad change in weather patterns . Apparently the stubborn high-pressu...

Yesterday, while cleaning the barn , I took a short break to catch my breath after shoveling a bunch of stuff into the wheelbarrow (cow manu...

Our Angus heifer Mignon has a new home as of this morning: The freezer. At two years old, she was of prime butchering age. Unlike when we bu...

An article was recently published in the Wall Street Journal (and reprinted on MSN) entitled " The Americans who are going a whole mont...

While the long-suffering people in the eastern half of America reel from the impact of the massive storm that just passed through (and now, ...

Don and I, as often happens, underestimated the amount of hay we needed to get the livestock through the winter. I don't know why, but w...

This cartoon was created by the talented writer and artist Wren Everett and appeared in the Jan/Feb/Mar 2026 issue of Backwoods Home Magazin...

For the last few days, we're been hearing dire weather reports about the massive storm and bitter cold bearing down on two-thirds of the...

Dear readers, thank you for your forbearance as Don and I coped with finishing up a massive production run of tankards after Older Daughter...

A few readers have expressed concern about the blog silence. My apologies! We're all doing fine except we're still slammed with gett...

Every winter in our area, the elk move from the high country to lower elevations. This means we suddenly start seeing them all over the plac...