At the start of the week, our plan was simple. We had taken Friday off to meet with a WDNR forester to walk our woodlots and learn about...

Backpackers like to use the phrase "hike your own hike". Simply put, everyone on a trail is going the same direction, but how they choose...

The good news was that when we checked our maple sap pails, they only had a bit of ice and were full. The bad news was that we had nearly...

This weekend we tried our hand at making maple syrup for the first time. After we got settled on Friday night, I took a walk with Maxie...

A couple of weeks ago we walked through our front woods and tagged a few maple trees to tap for syrup. I was able to find four Sugar...

This weekend we started the second round of flooring installation. After serving as a storage room for many months, we began the process...

As we wait for the calendar to flip from February to March, an important milestone is fast approaching. We will have owned our property...

I was walking through our middle woods, looking for Sugar Maple trees to tap for the upcoming sugaring season. I heard a loud cry...

I write this entry with some trepidation. Nowadays, there are so many things that polarize our society. Guns are near the top of that...

We are ready for the inoculation of our oak logs (from the large limb that fell this past October) come April. We purchased our Shiitake...

Now that the kitchen is nearly done, we are turning our attention to some of the other rooms. Our next room is the master bedroom....

Writing this, I glance out the window and watch the snow starting to pile up. We have had a mild winter so far, but today we are getting...

This weekend we installed the rest of the cabinet drawer pulls (all 25 of them), and installed an overhead light. The kitchen is now...

We reached another milestone this weekend. Ever since we purchased the farmstead last March, the only furniture we have had for everyday...

Snow shoes were on sale at Fleet Farm, so we bought two pair. I took a walk to the back woods using the snow shoes for the first time. ...

It would have cost $400 to have the countertop installers hook up the faucet; needless to say, I did the hookup myself. Fortunately, it...

Installing the range hood was more difficult than anticipated (getting the wires through the hole and lining up the screws turned out to...

Now that the cabinets and countertops are in, we need to be able to open the doors and drawers. We purchased the cabinet handles / pulls...

The installers arrived at 9:36 am on Friday morning; they left around 12:15 pm. Service was extremely professional and courteous! A...

The recipe I used for my tonic is noted below at the end of this post... I recently made several batches of “Fire Tonic” (1 “gigantic...