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...

I came across a display of beers from the Hillsboro Brewing Company during a recent visit to the Viroqua Food Co-op. I love being able to...

This weekend, Ed and I will be assembling our RTA Kitchen Cabinets. Given the number of cabinets and the fact that this is all new to us,...

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...

Labor Day weekend provided a good opportunity to spend an extra day at the property and work on the house. We reached a big milestone - I...

For a couple of years leading up to our property purchase, I was a regular viewer of an “off grid” homesteading YouTube channel. The...

When we first purchased our property, it was the end of winter and our gravel driveway looked a little bare. One of the first things I...

Water is a relatively high priority item from my perspective given water’s absolute necessity to our lives; It is one of the first things...

This late summer / early fall, I broke out with a terrible blistering skin rash on my legs and it was the first time I’ve ever...

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...

The old outbuildings that came with our property are in fairly good shape but for their roofs. One of the buildings is a littler larger...

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...

Downsizing Downsizing has been an on-going process for us these past 2 years, yet we still have a long way to go. We’ve made countless...

After many weekends of patching, mudding, and sanding, the ceiling paint finally went on for the first floor. There is nothing like a...

I recently was looking for a healthy yet straight forward summer recipe that would make a delicious Sunday night dinner for us and allow...