Biking in the house
We finally got motivated to bring the CycleOps bike trainer out of the basement and into the den. A little Pandora for music and we are all set to ride the bikes inside. Last night I took mine for a…
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Playing in the forest
One advantage of living next to state forest is the kids have a lot of places to play. After lunch today we sent them to play. They had told us they were working on shleters. Ok. Then they came back…
Makin’ Bacon! An adventure in smoking meat
As you probably know, last fall we decided to raise 2 pigs. We sold 1 (in 2 halves) and kept the other one for our family. Our ~200lb live pig yielded about 125lbs of meat. However, our butcher doesn’t smoke…
Truck batteries
My F350 has 2 batteries. Big batteries. It takes a lot of power to turn over a 7.3L diesel engine. Since I bought my Jetta for commuting the truck doesn’t get driven as much. Our horse trailer has been in…
Kid chores
The kids have to help daily with animal chores, but as they have been getting a little older, the scope of chores has expanded. Since it was a snow day and we were all home, Alex and Vicki cooked lunch.…
Why is the butter in the fridge?
As you know, we like to get back to the past and look at how things used to be done in the time of our grandparents and great grandparents. Part of that, is reading (listening to audiobooks) of biographies from…
Ginger for the sweet tooth
I have a confession. I have a sweet tooth. In fact, if I have a bag of spice drops sitting on my desk at work, I might eat the whole bag in a couple of days. I like to keep…
Just a short run
Yesterday afternoon, as the holiday stand down was coming to an end, and the new week loomed, we needed to do some chores. I was short tempered with the kids and snapping at everything because I felt we had not…
A Christmas Eve Trail Ride
Instead of a stressful afternoon of cooking and worrying about special dishes, we decided to saddle up the herd and go for a trail ride. It was a nice 35F outside and the weather was clear. Our neighbor was nice…
The lack of education at school
I am not against public schools. Our kids attend public schools. However, I am concerned that the country feels the problem with schools can be fixed by simple standardizing the testing, and therefore, standardizing the curriculum. Maybe, the problem with…