Round Hay Bales

We used to bale our own hay, back when we had a couple steers in the pasture to feed it to. We haven’t had any steers for a few years, so our neighbor has been baling the hay for his own animals. He usually does the large round bales, then lets them sit in the [...]

Nearly Wordless Wednesday~ Ohio Mushroom Season

I’ve been thinking about doing wordless Wednesday posts for a while now. The only problem is I usually forget until Thursday! I will have to call my posts nearly wordless, I doubt I can let anything get posted without at least writing some words in there. Anyway, it’s mushroom season here in southwest Ohio. I [...]

It’s Starting To Look Like Spring In Ohio

It’s starting to look a lot like spring in my little corner of Ohio. The grass is getting greener, things are blooming, and the honeybees are even out gathering up some pollen. It was 80`F here on Sunday and sunny, then of course back down in the 50′s on Monday and raining, but that’s Ohio [...]

Fried Wild Morel Mushrooms

We have a wonderful patch of woods behind our house, so we headed back mushroom hunting the other night, and found a nice bunch of sponge and spike morel mushrooms. So of course I had to fry them up for supper. I love morel mushrooms, and you can only get them fresh for about a [...]