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We feed our big poochy some unusual things. She decided if it’s worth it. We kept scraps from the deer and elk we hunted last fall. Some of it kept in the freezer and some was preserved in our cheap-as-crazy outdoor freezer (compliments of our northern winter: any box on the porch). The last piece [...]

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Warning: Article not for the faint-hearted. I walked into the coop today to find a feathery rug-mat. Another one of the ‘old’ hens died since the last visit. I remember one that looked bedraggled and humped over during the past few days. I guess she’s a goner. I didn’t do an autopsy. There wasn’t much [...]

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This isn’t going well. I took the dandelion flower heads out of the freezer bag after they had thawed out. They smelled stinky. I tried to pull the yellow stuff away from the green ends but the bud was squishy and impossible to deal with. The flower petals that are normally as bright and beautiful [...]

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We have 14″ of new white fluffy flakes. After hardly any precipitation for over a month and an amazingly lightening fast thaw over the last few weeks I’m in shock at this whiplash of weather. There looks to be a sure bet that flooding will occur this spring. The previous melt entered the culverts and then [...]

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Today I am sifting and re-sifting through my bag of bean pods. This was the first year that I decided to salvage left over peas and beans and greens from the garden in the fall. I can’t believe I let these things go to waste before! To think that I’ve bought bags of beans for [...]

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The story of change is as old as the hills. It’s sad when it this obvious. Below are a series of pictures depicting the falling of a local grain elevator and the ending of an era. It says something about the passing of the corner store, small farms, small schools, etc. I have to accept [...]

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Over our supper of steak, spud and carrot stew Hubby told me some shocking news. He was visiting a couple in town yesterday. The wife had just been out grocery shopping and was peeling 3 potatoes for supper. She told my man that she had just spent $6 on these potatoes…and look here she exclaimed, one of [...]

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I developed an aching tooth three weeks ago. I made a dentist appointment. I can’t look in my own mouth, so I didn’t realize that I had plaque build-up on my teeth. It was then that I remembered my tooth whitening remedy. I’d been forgetting to use it once a week…for a year. Now I have [...]

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