How I Get Coffee / Tea During the Rehab
Every weekend I am more and more appreciative of Ed's propane camping stove with water kettle. In the wee hours of the morning, I am...
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Maggie
Oct 21, 20191 min read
Falling Pine Cones
The pine cone driveway clean-up efforts are intensifying!
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Maggie
Oct 21, 20191 min read
Walnuts Are Falling
The walnuts are really starting to come down now. We've been getting the one-off's for a while now, but the pace is really picking up....
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Ed
Oct 21, 20194 min read
Kitchen Cabinets - Upper Cabinets Are Up
With the exception of the cabinet that will go above the refrigerator, all of the upper kitchen cabinets are "up". This was one of those...
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Maggie
Oct 21, 20191 min read
Early Morning Fog - Quite Mystic
The early morning fog actually stuck around until mid-late Sunday morning... It was nice in a "mystic" sort of way...
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Maggie
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Milkweed Seeds – Scattered to Attract Monarch Butterflies
When we first purchased our property, Ed’s mother (who’s active with her local garden club) gave us some Milkweed seeds to plant. Because...
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Maggie
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Safe & Modern Home Food Preservation
Someone I recently met shared with me her “Safe & Modern Home Food Preservation” Facebook page. It started as a closed Facebook group but...
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Ed
Oct 14, 20193 min read
Perry Season
This is my kind of homesteading. As I've written previously, I am not a big fan of hoppy beers. Over the past few years I have focused...
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Maggie
Oct 14, 20191 min read
All-Natural Driveway Weed Killer – 2nd Attempt at Vinegar
Our driveway weeds are exhausting me! I want to keep how we address them as natural as possible (especially given that we get our water...
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Maggie
Oct 14, 20191 min read
October Snow - Winter's Coming
We had October snow at the property; nothing really stuck to the ground even though it did snow for an hour or so. Our dog Maxie had the...
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Maggie
Oct 9, 20192 min read
Life is Short; Do it NOW…
Me writing about life being short and suggesting that you need to live the life you want to live now, is a bit of the pot calling the...
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Maggie
Oct 2, 20191 min read
Backup Systems to Allow for Off-Grid Communications
I’m debating about maintaining a landline; to date, we have. My original thought process has been that I want a way to phone if our power...
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Maggie
Oct 2, 20193 min read
Backup Systems to Allow for Off-Grid Electricity
This one is going to cost us. Even if we do it ourselves (which I believe we’ll need to do for it to be cost effective). The only viable...
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Maggie
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Two Grandmothers - Visiting During Harvest Season
We did not work on our property this weekend (a blessing and a curse). Instead, Ed and I each brought our respective mothers to go...
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Maggie
Sep 23, 20191 min read
The Leaves Are Beginning to Change Color
It’s the end of September and the leaves are really starting to change color on our property and in the Driftless area in general. Fall...
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Maggie
Sep 23, 20191 min read
The Views
I have to work a little to hike to the high point of our land; but when I do, it’s always worth it!
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Maggie
Sep 23, 20191 min read
Trail Cam Joy
When we can get to it, our trail cam is actually providing lots of fun for Ed and I because we get to see what’s in our back woods when...
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Maggie
Sep 23, 20191 min read
Fox vs. Coyote
Fox vs. Coyote – sounds simple enough. We captured the attached picture from our trail cam; it's not a great picture and you have to look...
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Ed
Sep 22, 20191 min read
Popcorn!
Shortly after dropping our son Henry off at UW-Platteville, we drove to the college from the farmstead to drop off a few things. On the...
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Maggie
Sep 20, 20191 min read
Backup Systems to Allow for Off-Grid; in General
I guess I have a little bit of the “prepper” mentality; I’ve had it for while. Even so, it’s not anything that I’ve acted upon (yet)....
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