A. and I spent some time yesterday covering the potatoes with sheep-shit straw.  And yes, I did actually engage in some of the activity this...

Well! It seems that though the past few days have been a blur of hacking coughing, bleary consciousness, and general misery, there appeared...

You will have to excuse my continued absence here for a little while, duckies, as I try to recover from The Worst Cold in the History of All...

About five minutes ago, I had just gotten my coffee and was sitting down to waste some time online before the little dictator awakened and b...

There was indeed work accomplished yesterday in the form of moving two huge truckloads of sheep-shit straw from the barn to the garden . Th...

What better way to celebrate the end of a long work week than with . . . more work. It is the Blackrock way, you know. A. finished up in hi...

Funny how there are so many things we take for granted kids will know. Like the difference between a rock and a chunk of dry dirt. Cubby a...