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Out with the old: Ending the year with a bit of cleanup.
Year-end purge
Most of us have looked forward to the end of this calendar year. While we’re still unsure about what is to come in 2021, it never hurts to put the fog of the past behind when seeking an … more
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A smorgasbord of cheese. There are worse ways to gain the holiday pounds.
Wishing you a cheesy New Year
When it comes to the holidays, there are so many new things to experience. Many of my year-long favorites have been discovered between Christmas and New Year’s at various gatherings. Folks love … more
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A nice clean fur on the stretcher is a good way to start the holiday season.
Roadkill rewards
I don’t believe in luck, just to be clear. I don’t believe in karma, or fortune, or any superstitious force that balances positive and negative events. I do believe in God, however, and I … more
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It never hurts to have a backup plan
When luck runs out
At the beginning of the summer, my wife and I began an experimental enterprise to produce chickens for meat—not just in a single batch, but as a part of what might become a business that we … more
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Although otherwise all cleaned up, our garden floor requires some re-staking before it is ready for winter winds.
Frozen in my tracks
Anyone with animals dreads the time of year when the waterers and spigots begin to freeze. The season of chipping out buckets and filling hot water just to pour over stuck water lids has officially … more
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As the soy sauce is added, stir lightly to incorporate the building flavors.
Venison stir fry
Stir-frys aren’t a traditional American dish, but the concept of them has been around in various forms and cultures for a long time. If you think about what a stir-fry is, it is essentially a … more
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Here is the bountiful harvest collected from my clearly stunted Peruvian corn patch.
Ping-Pong corn
Towering nearly 15 feet tall, stretching out with long coarse leaves, stout and resilient to the wind, these vegetable giants cast shadows across much of the remainder of the garden. Surely, these … more
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Composed and alert, this rabbit reminds me of a meerkat on the open savanna.
Down the rabbit trail
I’ve had such a busy year with building up the homestead that I feel almost a constant need to craft or harvest something for sake of a story. As I sat down to write this, however, I remember … more
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With every minute that passes, more water is cooked out of the apples, rendering them smoother and thicker for the spreading.
Apple butter bliss
Breakfast is one of my favorite meals of the day—definitely in my top three, if I had to be really picky. But as someone who isn’t very good at waking up early and has to be to work … more
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Soon smoke will linger lazily over the roof of our new smoker once filled with life-sustaining meat.
A hunter’s haze
I woke up this morning wishing I didn’t have to go to work, much like a lot of folks this week. It’s not that I didn’t want to go to work, so much as I would have preferred to be … more
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There’s no time like fall to enjoy the nature around us.
Take a moment
Before you read this, I invite you to find a comfy chair and get comfortable. Go ahead, I’ll wait. It’s been quite a year to say the least. Every so often, I forget about everything … more
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Fresh onions to start the base of our French onion soup.
Crying over French onion soup
I was in tears. Not because I was upset, but because I was laughing. Why was I laughing? Well because my wife was crying. Before you think ill of me, she was also laughing but unable to quell the … more
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Fascinating as piebalds may be, they are in all ways, besides their appearance, the same as a brown whitetail deer.
Precious piebald
Lot’s of people go hunting every year whether for sport, for food or for family time. This year seems to be no exception, especially with the current pandemic pushing folks to do more outside … more
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A bunch of elderberries ready for picking
Elderberry eating
Most of us are familiar with the seasons as they are presented in an elementary classroom: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Fewer of us are as familiar with the micro-seasons that pass within and … more
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Steam rolls up steadily from the pots of brine and sanitizing jars.
What's the big dill?
There are some smells in the morning that fill your nose and welcome the morning with a warm and aromatic transition from a slumberly dirge to a functioning status. As I awoke this past weekend from … more
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Unconcerned with my proximity, this buck enjoys premature apples that have fallen in my yard
The Ides of August
Out here, there are a few things that we take very seriously—as seriously as religion or a fiscal promise in business. I’m speaking to the ritual that is fall hunting season. Most of us … more
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My son and I sit atop the freshly felled Hemlock in our yard.
Crashing coniferous
There are a few constants when living in the woods of Northeastern PA. The first is that there will be trees. The second is that said trees will grow and at least some will need to be cut down. When … more
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Rorick was delighted with his first experience on a boat.
The time we caught nothing
My father will likely scold me for publicly admitting we ever went out fishing and failed to catch something. So for the sake of his pride, I will explain right up front that it was a last-minute … more
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Yellow squash fritters
Like many folks in the current climate, I’ve been spending a lot more time in the kitchen, trying desperately to use up the overabundant items from my garden. The yellow squash seem to have … more
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My little blue swallow poses in the door of her fancy home.
Aviary abodes
I often like to write about my recent adventures, things I do with my family outside and just a general appreciation for nature, which I feel so inspired by. Sometimes I have a hard time coming up … more
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