Can for All Seasons
Ah, July. The time on the wee homestead when every inch of flat space in the house is covered in produce and mason jars,…
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Bin there, dung that
When it comes to compost, we don’t really know crap. There are a million schools of thought on the best way to turn those leftover…
Wood-In-It Be Nice
What good’s a wood stove without wood to chuck into it, amIright? Jenn talked about how we bought some seasoned firewood so we could…
Hearththrob
The date atop the crumpled newspaper read 1953. The same year the structure of DNA was discovered, Khrushchev was selected First Secretary of the Soviet…
No Offence
Whenever I’m bemoaning an upcoming weekend that will be spent repainting a room, I inevitably bump into some people who claim to love painting….
Game of Thorns
To the novice gardener (e.g., Brad), blackberry bushes can be intimidating. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, Brad, how the hell are you making…
Cereal Killer
It’s not that I have anything against commercial cereal. I ate Cap’n Crunch until I was in my third decade, including a rather late…
Cupboard = not bare
One of the things that we mentioned on our guest stint on the Root Simple podcast was the struggle we have with keeping our…
None of your…
Part the First: Justification She actually kidnapped me. This, despite the fact that I was already married to her and contractually obligated to accompany…