Diary

Despite the recent warm weather, we find that winter is not over as temperatures turn colder and fog heralds the arrival of rain and snow.

When we went to pick up the bee hive components I had ordered, we found a source for local queens and bees to help our hive start off strong.

Much of the Western U.S. is in a severe to exceptional drought and unless some serious snow falls in their mountains, we could see an impact on the food supply

When the fall warms up, we call it Indian Summer. What's it called when we get a preview of spring? I call it time to get a jump on outside projects.

After evaluating a number of power augers, we decided to go with a powerful option to dig our 25 fence post holes.

Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men go awry. We learned that our topography isn't quite as neat and square as the graph paper we plotted our garden on.

We made our first big shopping trip to the city in two months and it drove home the difference between living in big cities, small cities and rural areas.

After a spate of cold days with temps dropping into the teens, we see the first signs of spring and we test our gravity-flow water system.

We get some professional advice regarding our chicken coop design and garden layout.

We venture out to fetch supplies for our future garden and load up the pick-up truck with fence posts and welded wire fencing.