I went to buy drain cleaner yesterday. I know, it is not "Call me Ishmael" nor "It was the best of times, it was the wor...

Delicata squash have become a fall favorite, but still very hard to find in the backwoods of West Virginia.  Last year, we set about seed ...

Picked the last ripe tomato of the season. As you can tell, there won't be any canning this week.

For the past few days, we have been trying to capture the Guinea pig abandoned at the book lender. He has survived dehydration, predation,...

Dear Jackass: What possessed you to abandon a Guinea pig at the book lender? Are Guinea pigs known to be great foragers and defenders...

i am taking over this blog.  From now on it will be Teddyville.  It's coup d'état !  Learn to use spell check!  And you are not ...

Yes, January sucked, February sucked, but March...I was looking forward to a lovely March.  How bad could it be? February was ending on ...

I have been following a worn path through the snow to check on the chickens.   Yesterday I noticed that something else had been following ...

I swore to myself I would not do a  "woe is me" post.  Face it.  Everyone has had suck weather.  It snowed in Florida!  Below ze...

A tad undramatic, but still snow!

Several years ago, I wanted to buy a very expensive rug from Britain that bore the 1939 propaganda phrase: "Keep Calm and Carry On....

You know how it is.  You plan for a job.  You start the job.  Chaos ensues. Once we got the shed jacked up and all the stuff out of it,...

This is for you slackers and procrastinators out there who watched Labor Day come and go. We were very proactive this year.  In March, ...

 It's that time of the year!  We got a nice crop of onions. A few more days of curing and they will be ready to save for winter....

Finally, all the fields are hayed! It has been so hot and sticky, and cutting hay is tough work. I spent hours watching the guys ...

How are you?  It is one of those questions that is meant to illicit a short response. Great! Good. OK. Fair to middling. ...

Recently, someone came to the house and just after, "hello," he asked, "why did you pick that porch color? It's beaut...

We are testing out a cold house this winter, hoping to keep some herbs and a few root vegetables going through the snow.  The limp eggp...

Clearly, it is not the Golden Gate,but it is mine. How bad was it before, you might ask? Every day I drove across it, but I would not ...