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I have a house divided, in that FFB is a Patriots fan and the rest of us are for the Giants. Well, I’m not sure about FFG. I think she’s a Giants fan. When I asked, she said she was for the flashlights. Anyway, go Eli. Oh, and worst commercial so far? The Audi commercialContinue reading “Go Giants!”

I have something cooking in the kitchen that kept me from taking the kiddies to the big sledding hill. So I made one for them in the backyard. It’s not built for speed, but Future Farmboy enjoyed setting some distance records while Future Farmgirl did her best to reign over the hill. Pix below… MyContinue reading “Snow Day”

I’ve got a territory battle being waged in my backyard. Maybe it’s the snow or the writers strike, but I was completely consumed this morning watching a pair of young cardinals fighting with a group of house sparrows for the right to sit on my fencepost. In all fairness, the sparrows have been here longer.Continue reading “Cardinal v. House Sparrow”

Just a quick note to pass on word that Indiana health authorities are warning cheese buyers to check their purchases of Grassy Meadows raw milk varieties. Grassy Meadows dairy, based in Howe, sold the suspect cheeses directly to consumers, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting. High levels of staph were detected in routine testing.Continue reading “Ind. Raw Milk Cheeses Recalled”

Good news from a friend of VFG: There’s a new Butler Winery tasting room getting ready to open in Chesterton. I’ll be looking forward to that. I love that little artist’s community by the lake. Chesterton is full of suburban Chicago and NWI hidden treasures. Now back to American Idol.

I opened a bottle of Indiana Red from Butler Winery near Bloomington this week. I’d say it’s much better than my experience with the too-sweet Reggae Red. Indiana Red, on the other hand, is a nice, smooth table wine. Still a bit on the sweet side, but just about right for me. Butler Winery billsContinue reading “Hoosier Wine Update: Butler Winery”

I stumbled across this great Farmgirl feature in the Sunday Green Bay Press Gazette, “Women take the lead on more Wisconsin farms.” The piece notes that Wisconsin is among the top 10 states in which women are principals in farm operations. Deb Reinhart, who was the 2007 Dairy Woman of the Year at the WorldContinue reading “More Women than Men Enrolled in University of Wisconsin Ag Program?”

We ran out of milk over the weekend. So this got Future Farmboy wondering…”Why don’t we get a cow?” That would surely solve the problem. But I asked him where he’d put it. “In the backyard.” When I said that the cow would need shelter, he said daddy could build it a barn. When IContinue reading “Backyard Milk?”

If our schedules permit, we’re going to try to get it together to go to this Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse. It’s supposed to be the largest organic farming conference in the country with tons of workshops and more than a hundred exhibitors. If we go a day early, there’s an Organic University, withContinue reading “Ready for a Road Trip”

Finally, the iFarmer figured out where we were folding wrong to make a pressman’s hat. We can, however, now confirm that the incredible shrinking newspapers mean that the hats are truly child-sized. I doubt there were many full-grown pressmen who could fit these on their head… Folding and Instructions: On the old toy horse, withContinue reading “Eureka! A Pressman's Hat is Born!”