The Chickens Took the Day Off and I Built a New Anvil Stand

So the other day the girls laid only a single egg. It was bizarre. Then, the day after, we got five eggs. We normally get between three and six eggs per day, so having an egg-free day out of the blue was kind of bizarre. Everything seems to be back to normal. I guess [...]

Hay Hook and Straw Bale Root Cellar

Inspired by Throwback at Trapper Creek’s straw bale root cellar, we’re going to take a crack at building our own to store potatoes and all the apples that blew down in last night’s windstorm.

We went to the feed store and picked up “as many straw bales as will fit in this truck”* and [...]