Our barnyard is once again complete – we have a new family milk cow! Meet Margie, a full Jersey who is seven months pregnant and due to calve around March 20th. After two days, she has settled in and calmed down even during milking times.
The last hurdle in making our goal of moving into the ICF basement expansion before Christmas was making the windows doors and moving the windows to the new exterior walls. Sound confusing? It really isn’t. We added new walls around the existing structure that are 14 more feet out and these became the new exterior walls!
There is something new around the farm, a Kubota 8540 narrow tractor! The New Toy I got a new toy! It is one you probably…
With all the excitement and work surrounding grape harvest, I forgot to tell you about the new additions to our homestead – Honey Bees! Our backyard bees…
Making wine at home from montepulciano grapes is an exciting end to our vineyard harvest season and a fun end to our summer. Grape harvest…
The oak from Tennessee has arrived! It sure is a lot of wood but we have a lot of plans for it! As many of…
Our ICF (insulated concrete form) basement is finally beginning to look like a basement! There is now dirt against two sides rather than just dirt…
I love the look of stucco! Here are 3 steps to beautiful Stucco – DIY! For a chronological listing of our ICF building see ICF Building…
One day, the plan is to open our own winery! So wine making at home is a great way to practise! Someday. But, not today!…
In January 2012, we finished phase 1 of what will eventually be our basement built out of ICF (insultated concrete forms). We have been enjoying…