alas - i dont seem to have the garden-juice to be able to compete with a garden that has over 300 comments! think they have more friends - not hard - i live in the boonies and stick to my garden, animals, kids, work.
today we huddle and batten down hatches as another snow storm descends - we are looking at more than 2 feet of... ...see more

wheeww - we made it through last night without reaching down into -35F - we only got down to -10F (w/o windchill)
our goats and chickens made it through ok.
several days ago we lost my beautiful golden old english game cock (dont think i have mentioned this here yet, sorry if i did) to the cold weather. 
work is never done on a... ...see more

The northeast has fallen into a repetitive trough pattern of snow storm after snow storm .. this next wed we may be looking at a proper olde tyme yankee storm I remember from when we first moved here in 1996 winter - a 4 foot storm.
As always I have to be on budget and very frugal re: garden planning and seed starting.  I am... ...see more

will soon be setting up my seed starting environment - will share photos of it when its going - cant get started too soon because plants will get too leggy otherwise by time our last frost date comes - which is May 15th

well, after a good 2 feet ontop of the foot that was there before - we are starting to feel like we live near the great lakes or something.
next weather will be some cold temps (zero F for a stretch) then next week another potential significant storm so its possible that this snow will not melt by then and we add some more.
We... ...see more