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For The Discerning Swamp Yankee

Saturday, 14 March 2009 7:23 A GMT-05

We've become sophisticated in some ways; for example we finally put a closet in our main entrance way so that we can hide away coats and hats and shoes upon arrival instead of piling them in a heap and stashing them away quickly when company come

We are the cheese

Monday, 29 October 2007 6:06 A GMT-05

Saturday was cold,windy, raw and rainy so naturally we spent the day outside spreading manure and splitting wood. Sunday was sunny, windy and bitterly cold. That night promised lows down into the 20s, so we had to brave the day to get the last of the

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The Washington Mall

Monday, 22 October 2007 6:00 A GMT-05

No, not this one .This one . We've often contributed to the Washington Mall, aka the Dump, officially known as the Recycling Center. Obviously we throw our trash away there, and our recyclables, and every once in awhile we plop down some cl

Too many cooks in the kitchen

Thursday, 20 September 2007 6:00 A GMT-05

Because we're wannabes and not real Swamp Yankees, or perhaps, rather, real farmers, our various preservation projects end up happening in our kitchen or out in the open or sometimes in the basement, as opposed to a separate, well organized space

Wannabe bloggin'

Wednesday, 12 September 2007 5:58 A GMT-05

It's one of those days again where I appear to be much more interested in checking out my statistics, my referrals and how the heck people get to my site in the first place than to actually write something meaningful which might bring you all bac

Pass (on) the Salsa

Wednesday, 5 September 2007 5:31 A GMT-05

My very first favorite food was olives. Green olives with pimentos or black pitted olives you could stick on your fingers; it didn't matter, though the green ones frequently came out of the martini's of the adults around me for that ext

Fellow Farmer Wannabes

Friday, 10 August 2007 7:08 A GMT-05

We've had a vegetable garden, with varying degrees of attention and success, for about five years now. Each year it gets larger and larger and we get more and more ambitious, to the extent that we are now about to approach the brink between

Ingredients of an Orchard

Friday, 3 August 2007 6:02 A GMT-05

What do you get when you mix thousands of softball sized rocks, three thousand pounds of lime, 500 pounds of sulfur, a spreader, a drag chain and in a few weeks, a few thousand pounds of grass seed?Why, an orchard, of course.It's only 90 degrees

[Photo Album] A Field Is Born

Sunday, 1 July 2007 6:00 A GMT-05

This is what we do in our spare time; destroy thriving forests and assert our dominion over the resulting field.Behold.It has taken us three years to get to this point;

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Motorcycle Wannabes

Monday, 18 June 2007 9:45 A GMT-05

If you're ever driving behind a motorcycle for a long period of time, you might notice that he or she will wave at other passing motorcycles. We're a friendly bunch.Usually. 'Round about Motorcycle Week here in NH, however, y

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Bustling

Monday, 4 June 2007 7:34 A GMT-05

Being part-time homesteaders definitely has its good points. You tend to do things that other people hadn't thought of doing, like making your own charcoal or even scrounging for it from the ash of your furnace. You can grow a reaso

Rainy Day

Thursday, 31 May 2007 7:39 A GMT-05

For the past few weeks the weather has been gorgeous. That is to say, sunny, warm, windy enough to keep the bugs away and, most importantly, no rain. The no rain part has been nice for me, since if all else failed I could at least haul my

Piece of cake

Friday, 16 March 2007 6:02 A GMT-05

Technology isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take yesterday morning, for instance, when blog-city was down for at least two hours. It's nice when it's up, but when it's not up, well... there's no way I can do

Hybridization

Monday, 12 February 2007 6:54 A GMT-05

As my avid readers may recall (I'm sure all of you remember each detail of my life vividly, which is a good thing because I don't..), our 2003 Saturn Coupe bit the big one early on in the fall with only 81,000 miles on it. The Saturn got fairly

Bluster and roofing

Monday, 30 October 2006 6:42 A GMT-05

Friday we came home to find the roofers still working, well into the darkening evening, frantically trying to get the half-done roof ready for the Big Storm which was headed our way. It figured that there would be a big storm before the ro

Wood Be Yankees

Monday, 23 October 2006 5:47 A GMT-05

This is the price and the pride of heating entirely with wood. Threatened by the possibility of snow, we began to move our hard earned stash, which has been drying outside all summer, down into our basement, where it will get stacked an

Chaos in the Kitchen

Friday, 22 September 2006 5:56 A GMT-05

Does anyone remember this project? Well somewhere along the line we managed to get the new dishwasher hooked up and working, but despite the gaping hole we had created we were unable to push the thing back into its cave. So for the past 9 mont

Johnny Appleseed

Monday, 18 September 2006 6:00 A GMT-05

With all the fuss going on about the future apple orchard, we tend to ignore the lone apple tree in our backyard. I pruned it a few years back but mostly it fends for itself. This year, despite our neglect, it burst out into fruit.

[Photo Album] Happily making a mess

Wednesday, 6 September 2006 6:02 A GMT-05

Excavating a future apple orchard

Town Gossip

Tuesday, 5 September 2006 7:30 A GMT-05

So far, so good. The rumors about town are especially amusing. We aren't privy to them all, of course, but what we do hear is fabulous. Some are not rumors at all fast moving gossip which makes it all the way to from one end of town (the

Best Laid Plans

Monday, 4 September 2006 6:54 A GMT-05

First, they came late. A day and half late, to be precise, as we were originally supposed to start this adventure on Thursday. So around 1 pm on Friday I was finally able to climb into the cab of the beat up monster they'd finally brought

Digging an even bigger hole

Friday, 1 September 2006 6:38 A GMT-05

We've played with the little ones before but starting today we're going for the real thing. About a hundred years ago, the land across the street had been completely cleared for pasture. Somewhere along the line the cows and the farmers

Hobby Horse

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 7:38 A GMT-05

The thing about some of our hobbies is that there are people out there trying to milk us for all we're worth. This weekend we drove through ravaged Alstead (ground zero of the great October flood) to get to the Evil Maple Store, which sells ite

Man Make Fire

Wednesday, 21 September 2005 6:39 A GMT-05

First you get some steel drums with lids to seal them with, preferrably steel drumswhich have had something innocuous like apple juice stored in them rather thanturpentine or weed killer. Then you turn the barrels over and bang a few holes into the

It's all about the Deere

Monday, 7 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05

I'm a speed demon, I admit it. I've been pulled over so many times I don't even make any excuses anymore, just hand the license and the registration over and wait for the inevitable. I've definitely learned my lesson.I got a radar detector.Now I

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