A few weeks ago we did a check up on the bees.  They seemed quite active to me, maybe a little different than usual. It's hard to s...

Remodel our house!? Finally finish the bathroom; the gaping hole in the floor!? Finally finish the front hall, the railing, repair the plast...

I guess it's technically spring since summer doesn't start till June 21st, though I'm sure most of us consider summer to start o...

I was just sitting down to a quiet lunch and heard a funny sound.  It was sort of a scratching, crunching... hard to identify sound. But cle...

Those of you who remember our "freezer challenge" from a couple years ago may not be surprised by this. Our freezers are still jam...

The bees arrived in a buzzing little box in mid-April (while I was off traveling in Kenya!).  So Jeremy took care of installing them in thei...

I can tell I fell of the blogging bandwagon in a big way when we started a whole new urban homesteading project and I never blogged about it...