Ever feel like you are living in a soap opera? Every day is kind of similar to the last. There might be a couple new characters on stage but nothing too jolting. Welcome to winter farming when there is not much farming to do. We occupy ourselves with daily jaunts to the Spit with our […]
Valentine’s Day in Homer
What do you do in snowy Homer over Valentine’s Day? Go to the races of course. An ice race track was meticulously created on Beluga Lake. The lake is in between the Spit and downtown Homer. It includes the Beluga wetlands. There are more than a 100 bird species that migrate to the area in […]
Snow!
Not too much to talk about around these parts except snow. AND MORE SNOW. We’re pretty sure that we have hit our annual average already. It is so deep that the moose are walking the roads to avoid wading through the drifts. We take a road called Skyline Drive to downtown Homer and the Spit. […]
The Elusive Yeti
No, we’re not talking about Bigfoot. We’re talking about the Yeti Power Station which has taken on a life all of its own. We have been trying to purchase one of these Goal Zero power stations for months now. We thought we had a solution with Sportsman’s Warehouse. They said the 6000x would be added […]
Good Riddance to 2020!
I think everyone can unanimously breathe deeply and trust that 2021 can only be better than 2020. At least that’s our agenda. We have another month or two to finalize decisions on new capital expenditure projects (fancy lingo for a large storage shed and a new winter chicken shelter). A high tunnel is waiting to […]
Happy Holidays!
Not so sure these will be the “happiest” holidays as many folks deal with covid and its restrictions. Homer has a small population of some 5,000 year round locals which has probably helped mitigate the effects of the virus here. We feel for communities in lockdown hotspots like NY, CA, and the UK. Updates Yeti […]
Alternative Power
We like to think that we are mostly off grid. Our primary heat is oil and we have a tank that when full will last about a year. We have our own well water. Electric is our one dependency. There was a storm a week ago that knocked out power for several hours. Our oil […]
Winter Chicken Talk
Winter is here! We have waist high snow and nice cozy 20’s temps. Good fun for us humans who like to ride studded fat tire bikes and cross country ski. Not so much fun for chickens. Our flock that we picked up this past summer are still getting used to the snow and ice. We […]
Sit’n Around in Homer
Everything has slowed down in Homer. Don’t get us wrong… we don’t mind the peace and tranquility at all. We still head down to the Spit for daily dog runs. It is kind of nice having much of it to ourselves but yesterday there was some action. One of the big state ferries was docked […]
AK & Homer Geography 101
One of our favorite states is Montana. If you have ever been there, you know exactly what the cliche “Big Sky” means. Alaska takes the concept of big to a whole new dimension. There is a friendly bone of contention between Texas and Alaska over state size. There is no denying that Texans and their […]