I’ve never cared much for mustard greens. The canned variety just tastes nasty, I think. The fresh ones gathered in the pasture when I was a kid weren’t much better. Still, they were on the list of cold hardy greens likely to do well in an unheated hoophouse, so I tried them.
Surprise! They’re yummy! When [...]
It’s true. The best carrots ever come from the winter garden in my greenhouse. Trust me. I just picked one. I’m eating it right now.
For years, I’ve heard how wonderful winter-harvested carrots taste. Since my sources were level-headed, reliable people, I believed them despite my own frustrating attempts to grow decent carrots in any season. [...]
Here’s a comparison of various egg types, just to give you an idea of the size differences. Eggs from left to right: goose, 6.5 oz.; duck, 2.6 oz.; chicken 1.8 oz; chicken 2 oz. I put the goose and duck eggs into the incubator, and the chicken eggs were breakfast.
Normally, I don’t weigh the eggs [...]
Here’s a close-up of the tom turkey in yesterday’s black & white photo. Note the coppery sheen of the band of feathers on the left side of this photo, just above the bold black and white bands. The Bronze turkey takes its name from the coloring reflected in the sunlight, and that copper band diffentiates [...]
Kacey over at Wine on the Keyboard issued a couple of days ago — she showed us a great bridge photo and challenged her blog readers to play a little with Photoshop to convert a favorite photo to black and white. A big thank you to Kacey for this challenge because I had so much [...]
Our American Buff geese seem to laugh at the cold. They’ll even bust the ice on their wading pool so they can bathe and play in the frigid water. They’ll come into the barn during the dark of night, but otherwise they like having open sky above their heads. Not that they do much flying [...]
Today’s favorite things:
Bog Boots
Snow Grippers
We didn’t get a lot of ice and sleet, just enough to make walking to the barn an adventure. Luckily, I remembered where I’d stored the new Snow Grippers. I ordered a couple pair of the pull-on ice cleats because I’m not as graceful on the ice as 30 years ago, [...]
Some days it’s nice to stay inside and watch the birds from the comfort of a warm house.
