Frost on the windows this morning but not the ground here on the farm as October 2019 still hasn't had a killing frost on the Farm.    ...

Today's Facebook post 58F, calm. damp after an afternoon thunderstorm dumped another half inch of rain on the Farm yesterday. Before ...

I do a daily post on Facebook--sort of a memory diary so I will know what it is that is happening and what I am thinking.  Have been doi...

September 28th, 9-5 pm, 2019 is the 14th Annual River Road Ramble - the loop tour of Hwy 87 and the old River Road between Grantsburg and St...

Back in 1970, I had a summer job at the Sterling Fire tower.  I sat 100 feet above the surrounding forest using my eyes to look for smoke.  ...

    The past few months here in NW Wisconsin -- Polk and Burnett Counties, along the St Croix River, a movement has been forming.  It all be...

With Summer soon here, we are gradually catching up with the spring jobs; the new garden fences, the garden and flower bed plantings, and in...

    College grades were critical to get into graduate school, so when after the first quarter, I got a B in American Literature I was devast...

We are finishing maple syrup season this coming week.  For us it was a normal season, a normal yield of about 1 quart of syrup per tap, and ...

         From Lake D'Arbonne State Park on the northern border of Louisiana, starting week 6 of our winter trip south.      It a...