Today my wonderful, travel-loving husband is guest posting with one of his favorite day trips out of San Francisco. He is my favorite person to travel with for many reasons but one is that he knows what he’s talking about…
Product Reviews – Hot Tubs
When we lived on the farm, we had an opportunity to buy a used hot tub at an insanely cheap price. The guy selling it was trying to sell his house, and most people didn’t want it, so I bought…
Product Reviews – Infrared Sauna
Looking for ways to utilize my basement, I hit upon getting a sauna. I looked at them online, and finally settled on this one. We got it on Ebay for about $1300 a few years back. It came in hemlock…
Product Reviews – Samsung Appliances
The Dishwasher Having had phenomenal success with one Korean company, Hyundai, I tested the waters once again when it came time to buy a new dishwasher. I’ve had maybe four dishwashers in my time, mostly from Sears, Maytag, and Frigidaire. …
Product Reviews – Hyundai
The Sonata I bought a 2001 Hyundai Sonata back in, well, 2001. I had been dating my soon-to-be wife for a few months, and already knew she was the one. So when I took out the car for a test…
On the Farm – Bunnies
When you think of bunnies, you think of soft fluffy little critters with cute little noses moving up and down, floppy ears, and a sweet disposition. In real life, rabbits are far from sweet. Go back and watch The Holy…
On the Farm – The Homestead
So we bought the farm. One of the best things about the place was the ability to get away. You could walk into the upper fields and not see a single sign of anybody else anywhere. I use this as…
On the Farm – Free-range Chickens
I like chicken, but I hate eggs. Not sure why that is, except I remember getting stomach viruses as a kid and always tasting rotten eggs as I was in distress. I also hate ketchup. In this case, I do…
On the Farm – Guns
For the most part, farmers aren’t Second Amendment nuts. To a farmer, a gun is a tool like any other. If you have rats in the feed shed and the cats can’t keep up, a .22 rifle becomes a handy…
Pigs and Twinkies – On the Farm
Pigs and Twinkies I am an avid vegetable gardener. I refuse to grow anything I don’t like to eat, though. I put in about 25 tomato plants, 20 pepper plants, a half-dozen assorted squash, a boat-load of green beans, some…