Month: September 2019

Month: September 2019

Barn Renovation (Part 2)

The rain started far earlier than we had hoped. Our great plan of cleaning up the horse paddock and stalls didn’t quite make it so we rushed to get it done between raindrops. Horses are heavy, walk, poop, and pee quite a bit. Add a ton of rainwater and bad drainage and winter equals a

Food Preservation

We aren’t homesteaders by any measure – but we have an avid interest in learning about the past and more importantly not letting things we put effort into go to waste. While our garden was less than spectacular this year – we have quite a few thing’s that we want to keep. We both remember

Brewing!

We started brewing (Yep – another thing we can try to squeeze into our busy schedules). While we really enjoy the vast array of local wineries in the Willamette Valley, we both tend to prefer sweeter white wines and less hoppy beer/cider. I like Ales and don’t mind drier wines, but still, not the super