Against The Grain Homestead

11/02/2026

SEVERAL TORNADOES, some possibly strong, and damaging winds will target north-central Oklahoma and south-central Kansas today, now upgraded to an Enhanced Risk...

Morning showers will clear out of western Kansas and Oklahoma, letting temperatures climb into the 70s and low 80s this afternoon. A few supercells are expected to fire from south-central Kansas into western Oklahoma by around 4 to 5 PM. They may take some time to get organized, and the early storms could turn into bowing line segments instead of supercells.

If supercells can hold together into early this evening, they’ll run into strengthening winds near the ground. That makes the corridor from Wichita down toward Oklahoma City and Tulsa the most likely spot for tornadoes.

Tonight, storms along the dryline will merge into a line that pushes east with damaging winds and embedded tornadoes, reaching western Missouri and the Oklahoma–Arkansas border early Tuesday morning.

Farther south, storms will fire along the dryline in North Texas late this afternoon, with large hail early, then damaging winds and a few tornadoes as they form a line.

A livestream is likely!

11/02/2026

My kind of luxury is a simple life close to nature. 🌿🐓

11/01/2026

October is gone, and November is here! May this be a peaceful month full of the blessings of fall. 🍂

11/01/2026

October, you were beautiful. So many little moments worth remembering. 🍂

10/31/2026

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Farewell, October

10/31/2026

Tomorrow is the darkest morning of the ENTIRE year for about 200 million Americans...

It’s the last morning before clocks fall back, so sunrises are later than they’ll be at any point this winter.

Arizona, meanwhile, remains unbothered by any of these Daylight Savings posts as none of this applies to them.

10/28/2026

10/25/2026

Have a great day🧡

10/22/2026

Before anybody talked about meal planning or budgets, a mountain woman already had the whole winter worked out, and she did it standing in front of the cellar shelves with a pencil. 🫙 Every jar on those shelves was a day her family would eat in February.

If you grew up with a cellar, you can still see it. Rows and rows of quart jars glowing in the dim light: green beans, tomatoes, corn, kraut, pickled beets, peaches, blackberries, apple butter. You can smell the cool damp stone. You remember being sent down for a jar of beans and being told exactly which shelf to take it from, because she knew what was there better than you knew your own pockets. 🍑

That knowing was the point. All summer and fall she worked the garden, the orchard and the blackberry patch, and canned in a hot kitchen until late at night. But she was not just filling shelves. Many women figured it out like a ledger: how many weeks until the garden came in again, how many mouths at the table, how many quarts of beans and tomatoes that meant, and how many more she needed before the frost. If the count came up short, she canned more, traded with a neighbor, or found a way. 📝

That is real management. There was no grocery store down the road and often very little cash, so those shelves were the family's insurance, savings account and supply line all at once. A woman who could stock a cellar right kept her children fed through a winter that could close the roads for weeks. Nobody gave her a title for it. She just did the math every year, and she rarely got it wrong. 💪

Next time you see a row of old canning jars, think of the woman who counted them. She was feeding the future, one quart at a time. 💛