Homesteader Life

I live in a little bit of town called Nanticoke. I know, you thought I lived in Lisle. Lisle is my mailing address on account of its the nearest town with a post office. Anyhow, Nanticoke is like a lot of other “used to be” towns in the hill country. If […]

Last night, after supper, the boys were running around me saying “Get the ice cream out…Lets celebrate!!!” Celebrate? What, the broken manure spreader, the broken barn cleaner, the wood that needs spliting, the frozen pipes, the frozen toliet or my burned fingers? I asked them what on earth they were going to […]

Pastor Tom McConnell has written a fine post that you should be sure to read….The god behind Pagan America

Sora writes (Here in a comment)
“Wisdom isn’t instilled in half-hour one-on-one tutoring sessions. It’s instilled in the course of living our day to day lives and working and playing side by side with all our children — when we rise up and when we lie down and when we walk along the road. ”
I […]

This beaver was caught on Dec 24th in a 330 conibear. He weighed 60 pounds! He is the biggest beaver I’ve ever caught. My brother in law snapped the picture for me. I’m still trapping beavers in open water, it was in the 50s today and raining.

I have finished reading Remembering the Fish: The Seven Keys by Jerome Lange. I was very impressed with this book and highly recomend it. At first, I found myself wondering what a fella in Upstate NY would find of value in a book writen about gardening in Kentucky. After reading the […]