As you may or may not know, like most people living with mastocytosis, I am deathly allergic to bees, wasps and other Hymenopterans. I nearly died a few years ago from a wasp sting and it was actually what led me to getting my diagnosis (but that's a different post for a different day). I …
I sincerely hope that everyone had as beautiful a holiday as we did here in SE Idaho. Believe it or not, this was the first Easter weekend for years that we didn't have bad weather. Either it's been cloudy, windy, rainy or snowing, or a combination of all of the above. Not this year, though! …
The weather is warming up quickly which means two things; one, our days of mushing the pups in the snow are numbered and two, it's time to get the pens ready for new spring chicks! The Muscovies are prolific breeders and we always get a nice hatch out of them twice a year with very …
When our kids were little we lived up in northern Montana at the edge of a tiny Amish community near the Canadian border. We were only there for a year but it was the best year of our lives! Each Sunday we'd watch the caravan of black carriages go by on their way to church …
I hate the term "special needs", at least when applying it to myself, but it is my reality. Living with mast cell disease means that I have to adjust everything in life to suit my immune system, including prepping. Especially prepping! My day-to-day living is, in reality, a survivalist's way of life. It's a daily …
