When I show property pictures to friends and family, they always ask about our neighbor to the south. I like having them there. A family...

I wish we’d gotten a picture (the photo I attached is a free stock photo from online; it's as close to what we saw as I could find). We...

Walking to the back woods this morning, I noticed Wild Asparagus along the fence line.

Ed has always wanted some sort of artistic talent. In 20 years of marriage, I had no evidence that he had any (sounds cruel I know, but...

This week, our hayfield had its second cutting; it was so nice seeing the hay bales scattered in the field when we arrived. The cutting...

In-between paint coats, I went and picked apples from our pasture area this weekend. The apples were small and looked pretty beaten up...

The “Driftless Area” is a midwestern region of the United States in southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa,...

Wild cucumber vine (Echinocystis lobata) is native to Wisconsin. I’d never really noticed it before but sure did come to notice it over...

Whenever we sit in our living room at night with the windows open and the lights on, there’s what appears to be a ton of moths banging on...

We’d gotten so accustomed to big bonfires at the property as we tried to burn away all of the brush from the pine trees we had removed...

When we had the pine trees near the house taken down, we had the professional arborist leave the fallen trees in place along with the...

Normally, we don’t pay all that much attention to airplanes flying overhead. That was until we were at our property one Saturday...

Early in the spring, I thought that the sprouting plants would be Hyacinths; but the Hyacinths never came. Here at the End of August, we...

I’ve never experienced sunsets like I experience them at our property, and I’m not sure why. Maybe I just don’t take the time to notice...

We had our first guests the past two weekends, and it was nice. My parents are getting on in age and it is not easy for them to get...

One of the things Ed really likes about the Driftless Area is the abundance of Sugar Maple trees. He wants to tap sugar maples and make...

Often, one of the first things I like to do when we get to our “still new to us property” is to take a walk (assuming the heat and bugs...

I used to know what a Cardinal’s call sounded like. Now I’m not so sure anymore. We see and hear so many different birds at the property...

These suprised us near the side of the house and near the barn; they appear to be perennials (at least we hope they are)...

I recently ordered and received an Invasive Plant guide from Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources. It cost me $5 to get it sent to...