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A venturing Fourth
The best way to make a tiny truck camper seem spacious and well-appointed is to spend the weekend on a 23-foot boat. That’s what Kevin and I did over the July 4th weekend, and we came home with a new...
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What camping does to you
Those of you who come here often already know that Kevin has managed, against all odds, to get me camping. A couple months back, we bought what he billed as a ‘tiny house,’ but is really a...
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On gun shopping
I bought a rifle. I bought a rifle because Kevin and I have been hunting deer in states that, unlike Massachusetts, allow it, and a rifle is a much better tool for deer-hunting than a 20-gauge shotgun...
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This is a dead deer. Don’t look away.
I have a bone to pick with you. With some of you, at any rate. Specifically, those of you who object to articles about killing animals and photos of those animals, killed. I kill animals. Over the...
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In for the winter
Whew. That’s done. It’s one of the biggest jobs of the year, and it’s done. The oyster seed is in the cooler. This year, we had twice as much seed as we’ve ever had, and so the job was twice as big....
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Vegan recipe APB
Everyone who knows my husband, and almost everyone who knows of him, knows that he is hopelessly, irredeemably, unapologetically carnivorous. He eats meat or fish every day, often more than once, and...
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Rural hospitality
There are a lot of reasons I don’t play as much golf as I’d like, and most of them are dull, dull, dull. We’re too busy. I didn’t get around to making a tee time, and now it’s too late. My game is so...
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The mystique of farming
Farming has, recently, become the recipient of a mystique. I wish I could put my finger on just how a profession in which you work hard for long hours in a risky business that doesn’t pay very well...
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Pigs!
We figured the five years that have gone by since our last pig-raising is long enough, and so we re-pigged at the beginning of July. Meet Buster, Malcolm, and Nellie. Kevin, making friends Our previous...
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First harvest of the year
Fourteen months ago, Kevin and I put 200,000 10-centimeter oysters out on our grant. By this January, they were about two inches, and we took them all out and put them in a cooler over the winter. In...
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