A couple of days ago we started hearing a previously unknown fluttering sound coming from inside the wood stove chimney. Since the previous owners took their wood stove with them (yet another project: find new wood stove) what we have is the butt end of a stove pipe sticking out of the wall from which […]
Around here, farmers go by the adage, “Cool and wet in May, plenty of hay.” But this spring’s been unusually warm and dry in our part of Upstate New York. We got a bit of rain the last two days, leading to this scene yesterday morning: a blanket of fog creeping into the valley, set […]
Over the years we’ve lost many of our tomato seedlings to birds. That’s right. For some reason, birds during spring nesting love to nip the tops off our little tomato plants. Starlings seem to be the worst culprits. They just leave the foliage lying on the ground, the plants to wither and die. Maybe they […]
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