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My bear side is emerging. I look outside, glance at the thermometer to confirm what I see, and think -- now that's where I don't wan...

 Last year, Halloween was bitter cold. There was snow on the ground, ice in the gutters. The kids were at the farmhouse after school and I t...

 I'll tell you the end result before I get lost in the detail: I did not get killed by a tumbling calcified giant water heater today! It...

I've held this belief that if you bypass, intentionally or unintentionally, a technology use or application when you are older (meaning ...

We start off with a brilliantly sunny mprning! Warm-ish too. Or, at least as warm as we'll get for the rest of the year. A day that begs...

On this at first cold, then beautifully sunny day, we waited. Oh, I did the usual -- feed animals, do household stuff, fix breakfast. We ate...

A young man knocked on our front door today. Masked, keeping to a distance. Since we actually have a front entrance these days (for years, w...

 I finished mowing just as it began to snow. So this is it -- our first snow of the year. Not heavy yet, not lasting either, but definitely ...

Another large, round number in our isolation tally! Sad but true. Still, from a distance, we watch the world go by and even though yes, ther...