Deaf Dogs and Benevolent Gnomes

Wanna see what a guilty dog looks like? Shadowfax the puppy had a dilly of a time digging up the clematis vine that I had just planted,...

It was over a year ago that I wrote about Making Homemade Vanilla Extract .  That post detailed how to make the vanilla extract, but I neve...

We saw glimpses of bright yellow this week on the homestead. Yellow tulips are almost spent, this is probably their last day of full blo...

We learned today that Cavalier, North Dakota is re-opening (Grand Re-Opening?) Friday morning at 7:00 am.  Our house guests will probably h...

Big news from North Dakota.  Alycia's hometown of Cavalier, North Dakota is under a mandatory evacuation.  The dam about 6 miles west o...

It has been an amazing week of bird watching here at the homestead.  After chronicling our sighting of a Rose Breasted Grosbeak and Goldfin...

After a very long winter here in North Dakota we're finally seeing some gardening glory, the first blooms of Spring.  Due to an unusual...

We had a new bird sighting just this morning at the homestead - a rose breasted grosbeak. They're not exactly rare in North Dakota, but...