I took one last pass around my yard and through my basement before calling it a night. the Nor’easter that arrived on Sunday has decided to hang around for an extended engagement. Some friends of mine are enjoying the performance …
In the morning I had to go the post office and found army trucks blocking [...]

The farm construction project has lots of details. Most of them represent unfamiliar territory to me.
From the very start, I intended to employ a heatpump system. I knew a little about them from years ago but knew they were difficulty to complete in the Northeastern USA. They work well for air conditioning but getting heat [...]

Zen and I checked on the wheat crop this morning down on my farm and it truly is “golden fields” and “waves of grain”. The winter wheat here is not as tall as the stereotypical crops shown from the mid western United States. I hope to capture a few pictures of the harvest. I [...]

I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for a year and never got around to taking the picture that “says it all”. So today I Googled for it. I found the picture. It was on Flickr and the photographer had written about it. So, without further a due, consider this a guest blog post [...]

I look forward to picking and drying figs this fall. In the meantime, I discovered a ripening crop of black raspberries.

I am not the only one who likes fresh raspberries. It seems, Zen has been sneaking off and grabbing a quick snack in the afternoon.

… no wonder I never find any ripe berries on the [...]

I was about to sit down for a little mindless television when the phone rang. It was a recorded message but I actually listened for 15 seconds. It was an automated system announcing that U.S. Congresswoman Thelma Drake (2nd District Of Virginia) was having a teleconference town hall meeting and if I stayed on the [...]