This is before we weeded! We started our day taking a walk in the garden which turned into working in the garden pulling weeds. The fall garden has been weeded. The garden was still a bit to wet to plant more seeds. Hoping that we will be able to use the rototiller today and plant some more beets for my In Laws. Plus we picked about 30-35lbs of tomatoes.... I then went to canning tomatoes and okra, ended up with 12 qts and 12 pts total!  ********************************************************************************* My outdoor kitchen  I entitled this "For Real" because I have read some other blogs who say there are to many blogs who proclaim one thing and show another. Never judge a book by it's cover! Mtn Man and I have lived off grid by choice at our cabin in Montana. We loved our life there and intend on having something similar here.  At the present time, as some of you know already, our house needs to come down and we will build an efficient hou...

Here it is 4 days until Christmas! We received a few gifts today from a friend to put under our tree, which by the way are the first to be under our charlie brown leaning tree! Funny story about our tree, as you may remember we went out and found our tree rather quickly and then in a matter of 15 min had our tree decorated.....yes I hear you laughing , really you should see the tree it is quite hilarious! That evening we went over to a friends house to see the progress on his barn and returned to find the tree fell over! No wonder, we put the tree in loose sandy dirt we dug out of the snow in a rubber bucket and left. Laugh was on us! So now we have it wired to the wall and it has a slight lean to the right.......starts sounding like a Chevy Chase Christmas! Notice we took great care in mixing up the lights!!!! Incidentally we have had hung the two stockings up behind the stove and today it was suggested I move the large stocking as the things inside might melt! Someone put lots...