We are under a heat advisory in our area. At the present time the temp is about 98 although the weather people say 91, with a heat index of 97, humidity of 49%. Another words, You sweat while standing still ! ******************************************************************************* We installed the insulation on the outside of the root cellar attaching with a spray on adhesive. It worked pretty good. Then put in the drain tile around the container spreading straw on top of that. The tractor pushed the dirt up against the container. We looked inside to see if it was starting to cave and it was holding wonderfully. And the temp was holding great too!  Mtn Man called it quits today due to heat and therapy. This is his last week one more session to do then see the doc on Monday! Will get more peaches tomorrow. Have tomatoes on the front porch that are ripening probably due to can. Due to mow some yards too. JG & Cemetery will get done thi...

This qualifies as a dirty job! But it is done....even the top. No we didn't do the doors not sure why but the boss said not to paint them. He painted the one spot on the door to see what this stuff looked like otherwise they will remain green. Next will come the insulation and plastic then we can bury it.. Wahoo! Ps the weather has stopped us today...thunder and lightening (made my hairs stand up) Can you see the sweat and red face? It was in the 90's and 100% humidity!!!  I was covered in that asphalt smelling stuff....threw my clothes away..took gasoline to get it off our skin, dawn soap to get the gasoline off and a warm shower with soap to wash the sweat off! Now I am off to make " White Chili "...look for the recipe to appear soon with pics of course in the New REcipe Tab!! Hope your day is going great!! Contact by email (marye.masterson@gmail.com) with comments or subscribe to receive by email and reply directly to it........ Copyr...

7 pints roasted salsa verde 7 pints green peppers 3 pints, 8 half pints okra *** 17 qts whole tomatoes, 2 tomato juice **************************** Mtn Man has been shoring up the storage container for burial this will become our root cellar so it does not cave. Using the same principles as mine shaft... or close to it! I think this is much more sturdy. We used our lumber we cut.. so exciting! The outside will be covered in a tar like substance (foundation sealer) to that directly will stick 1/2 inch insulation then cover that with plywood then 6 mil plastic then dirt. Will have more as we progress in next couple days... *********************** Got to go... tomatoes on agenda today! Mtn Man is clearing around container then will start the outside process....  Have a great day! Contact by email (marye.masterson@gmail.com) with comments or subscribe to receive by email and reply directly to it........ Copyright © 2014 M.E. Masterson All Photographs Copyright © 201...

Yesterday we headed off to his folks to stay the night so we could head out early this morning with our BIG load. We were able to get our container home with us on the farm today.  We worked on the sawmill today. Fine tuning how it works. Then we went to cutting up the remainder of the logs we had left in the pile. We did quite a bit cut up. I just have to sweep the floors and we are ready for our early morning trip to the hospital for Mtn Man's surgery. Hopefully be home about lunch time....... Copyright © 2014 M.E. Masterson All Photographs Copyright © 2014 M.E. Masterson

"Cabin fever is an idiomatic term, first recorded in 1918, [ 1 ] for a claustrophobic reaction that takes place when a person or group is isolated and/or shut in a small space, with nothing to do for an extended period. Cabin fever describes the extreme irritability and restlessness a person may feel in these situations. [ 2 ]" To keep ourselves from getting bored over this storm(which dropped 2" and dropped temps under zero), I decided to filter thru the items in our spare room to go to storage. Finding all kinds of goodies to put away is always a fun thing but in our situation we don't want to get to cozy as we are gonna have to take it down later on this year to start the building process of our log cabin. Mountain Man did help a little but did a lot of supervising the process! Today the weather cleared a little bit so he decided to go move it to the storage unit and out of the house. Even tho the temps are still really cold and the wind chill is bitt...