My wife and I have a small farm that we have been growing over the last 10 years. We have chickens, goats, sheep, dogs, and a pony. We have over 30 fruit trees, numerous berry bushes, and a garden area

I have been luck enought to live and grow up a few blocks from Lake Chabot in Castro Valley, California. As kids my brother, our friends, and I were always at the lake. We rode bicycles, hiked, fished,

It's not often my wife has a Saturday afternoon off of work, but this #beersaturday was different. Since she had the day off I asked her if she wanted to go anywhere and she wanted to go to Sam's Chowder

As I have mentioned before, in February of 2022 I got Covid. Now a year later, I am still having difficulties from the Covid virus. One of the things that has kept me away from posting anything recently

This #beersaturday I started out in my brewing room, except this time I wasn't brewing beer. I have been brewing beer for about 29 years now and had always seen wine making kits at the brewing supply stores

There is a place called Wrights Lake located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. It is one of my favorite spots to camp. The lakes are beautiful and since they are about 45 minutes drive on forest

How about adding a badge to your board for Halloween? Take part in the Halloween challenge and get the scariest badge of the year! What is Halloween? Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows'

It became clear my beloved Scout was very near the end of her watch, and I became that much angrier at the thought of being left in charge of the humans on my own. Scout was the Alpha dog in charge, I

This is a tunnel that goes under a mountain, just beyond the trees is the Pacific Ocean. The trail leads around to an older Miltary instalation that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and at one time protected

I live about 30 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge and have for most of my life. I guess I take for granted who beautiful it actually is. Have a great day

This is a few pictures of Convict Lake which is located near Mammoth Mountain, California. This image has both a reflection and shadows of the enourmous mountains surrounding the lake. This lake is a lake

This #Beersaturday my wife and I took our new puppy camping for the first time in our RV. We loaded up the cooler with many different beers and left. Being that this was the first time we have taken our

My husband and I have been looking around for a husky for a while. I really wanted an older dog already housebroken and he really wanted a puppy. We already had two older dogs at the time a corgi named

I was recently at a friends house enjoying some whiskey. He was showing me a smoker called a Foghat he had purchased for about $100. He was smoking the whiskey we were drinking and it definitely adds another

This #beersatruday was my mother in laws birthday so we had a small get together at our house. We enjoyed a few beers with everyone. I started this #beersaturday with a Abbey Style beer brewed by Jackrabbit

This past week, the bay are of California has been seeing record high temperatures all week. This past week Livermore California which is about 10 miles from me had a high of 116 degrees. Most days this

In July of 2012 my wife and I visited the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton California. That evening we were going to see Kelly Pickler in concert at the Fairgrounds. The day was extremely hot and after

These are my first roses I've ever grown. When we moved into our home almost nine years ago there were a few roses in the rose garden area and several around the property that we relocated to the rose

This #beersaturday, the wife and I had to clean up the backyard from some strong winds that blew everything around. My wife went to work early as she usually does and arrived back home shortly after lunch.

#Introduceyourself I am 54 years old and I live in California’s Bay Area where I work a hair stylist. I love coming home to our small farm at the end of the day and visiting with my ten chickens, two goats,