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As I write this, Hurricane Laura is in the Gulf and headed towards the upper Texas Coast.  At this point, landfall is predicted to be right on the ...

It is August and while I always think of it as the driest month of the year, it isn't.  February is our driest month by the record book with an ave...

It looks like in addition to our pecans we may have a reasonable crop of Satsuma oranges and Meyer lemons later this year.  Not really sure yet sin...

We got a happy box of new books in from Schacht Spindle Company today.  I've just added them all to the website for you to see.  There are books ab...

We have very few company policies.  The most important one during the summer is "Never have a dye day when there is a heat advisory."  Of course, w...

We all have that thing we can't quite remember or manage to be prepared for.  For some people is losing their keys.  Or having a flat tire.  Or run...

Most trees that produce nuts or fruit go through cycles of production.  One year may produce lots of fruit, other years not so much.  Each species ...

We have a huge crop of sand burrs which I would love to attack with a torch but we had the fire department out here to put out a grass fire last fa...

I planted two garden bins with cotton seeds back at the end of April.  This past Friday I picked my first cotton!  It's always a joy to see somethi...

Yikes.  It's already August.  It seems like we have been in lockdown for years or maybe only for moments.  Time has become an interesting phenomeno...

I'm in the middle of warping up my Schacht Standard floor loom with hemp yarn for face cloths.  I just finished a run of linen face cloths and this...

There comes a time in the spring when ponies just need to be trimmed.  Welsh ponies have no end of hair.  Trimming them for a show always took work...