MacLeod's Musings

For the past several years I have really enjoyed the upland bird season here in the Yakima Valley.  Chasing quail, chukar, and pheasant thro...

The chicken coop, renovated and populated this past spring, is now settled into high productivity.  We have fourteen hens in the 'big...

It has taken a couple of years, frankly, for us to get up to speed on the whole canning thing.  Our first couple of attempts at fruit jams...

WARNING:  WHAT FOLLOWS IS A POST ABOUT THE RAISING OF ANIMALS AS A SOURCE OF FOOD.  IT IS INTENDED FOR AUDIENCES INTERESTED IN SUCH PURSUITS...

There are a lot of benefits to keeping bees around.  Of course there is the honey, which is always dynamite.  I harvested plenty of honey ...

A great gift came to us in mid-late August this year - a family in the church offered us a week at their time-share property in Long Beach...

I admit that I've been having a bit of a freakout.  It has taken me some time to come to terms with it, to understand what I've be...