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I found a recipe a while back on the internet for cake in a jar. Since just the two of us here it works great. Makes about 6 jars of cake and one feeds us. Sometimes I do make a whole cake and freeze some at serving size pieces. Husband has decided to make the garden BIGGER! :thumbsup...

Good morning all, 25 outside here right now and the wind is howling like a wolf. Chicks did well in the coop last night...finally got the planting room ready. Just need to get everything I'll need together and start "starting" some seeds. :watering Swampducks a few years back I got about 25...

Thanks for the vote of confidence Swampducks! I'm waiting also to go into Alpena to get my garden starters...I found a couple of trays, some potting soil in the barn already. WHEW...got that room cleaned! Now I can get it dirty with dirt! Temp is going down here..its 31 now at 3pm. I...

:frow Good Morning Michigan! Onlike yesterday morning it is 33 outside right now! What a difference a day makes :( With all the sunshine yesterday the walk to the barn is alot less dangerous, no slipping or sliding our way there. :clap Yesterday our chicks went to the coop, this morning...

:weee 57 outside here right now. Up in Rogers City today the temp read 62 when we were there. Had to replenish the milk,and of course Ice cream to go with the apple pie I made in the oven today that is electric. We used a camp stove and luckly we have a coffee pot that goes on top of the...

:celebrate I'm back, I'm back! Been without power since early Saturday am. The chicks being without the light have done ok. Had them in front of a large window to get lots of the sunrays. :coolsun I know what you mean Swapducks about dodging the ice chucks! Woke up this morning to a temp...

I keep digging my seeds out and looking at them and wondering when to start them :tools I do want to get some wall o waters also. Thanks for informing me what they are. Do you know if Walmart would have them or only online?

It's 33 here right now and we are forcast to get anywhere from 8-15 inches by Saturday evening :( When will it end? Someone needs to update Mother Natures calander and let her know its now March!

Good morning! I'll have to try and get some of those, thanks Swampducks for the info.

I've been checking on the wall o waters...I always did wonder what those were when I'd seen them gardens. I take it they work quite well for you? Do you keep them on for just so long and then cage your plants or cage then put them on??? Fill me in if you will please, because they sound like...

Last frost is May 30th and the first frost in the fall is Sept 19th. So same boat here :( Sometimes I wish I lived in the southern and SWestern states. To hear them getting strawberries right now and putting in the gardens :barnie But then when we went SW last winter I hated the browness of...

Masai is what I ordered from pinetree this year to try. Glad you find that its good! I'm not sure what type of tomato I am planting this year, was just wondering on how soon to start the seed, and if it works well. I've always bought the plants.

This sure was a wet and heavy snow. So glad the power has stayed on :clap I think I'm gunna try and start some tomatoe plants from seed. Never did that one. I've done squashes,cukes, pumpkins ect but never tomatoes. Any suggestions anyone?

I'm gunna go with it and build a snowman and post it to my grandkids who are in Japan. Okay I built one and tried to add a picture of it here??????

:he With all this "new" snow, I can't even think about my garden :barnie

:barnie Now I am not ready for 6-10 more inches of snow! I'm hopeing the forcast is wrong and we are only getting 3 like yesterdays forcast.

GOOD MORNING :caf Need to head up to the feed store soon to get some more calf starter. We heat with a wood stove so not to worried about the storm except that I'll have to have DH move the brooder in close to the store if we do lose power. I don't dare go into TLC once they get the chicks in...

The hoop house she has works like her own green house. Made from pvc pipe and plastic. The ends though are 2x4 framed and have doors. She was planting spinach and lettuce in it in November I think I was. I need to get my DH to enlarge the chicken coop this spring. He says he is but just...

:frow Nice to meet you. I see you are a memeber of BYC also, so do you have some feathered critters too? I am just starting out with the farm again. Two calves, 2 piglets, and 47 chicks. We have had critters in the past but got rid of them to try out traveling in the winter. DH didn't like...

Not right now and hopefully not later! I am so ready for spring!