Homesteading

Sap bag and holder in maple tree

Maple Syrup from the Lehman Sugarbush

For 65 years, my family has been making what is (in my totally unbiased opinion) the best tasting maple syrup in the world. It’s a lot of work. But it’s deliciously worthwhile!

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ducks

Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew…

I have loved ducks for as long as I can remember. I have WANTED ducks for as long as I can remember. Once we got our homestead, I worked on Norm for a very long time to allow me to get ducks.

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Roll hay in the fields of Central Indiana.

Uncle John and the Hay Wagon

There are things we don’t identify as stupid until after we’ve done them. We blindly act with no idea that disaster is approaching us at warp speed. I learned this on a humid, mid-August day in 1946.

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Why You Need a Wringer Washer (and How to Use it)

A wringer washer gets clothes clean in a minimum of time, using a minimum of water and a minimum of detergent. You can do a whole family’s laundry in one morning per week, and not even think about it for another week. It gets grungy clothes clean without having to use spot cleaners or pre-washes or soaks or whatever.

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Good Neighbors

Have I ever mentioned that we call our place “Sagging Acres”? The fences are sagging, the barn roof is sagging, the horse’s back

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