I’ll be busy this coming week with grain harvest and it’s hotter than a pistol outside. I’m not to good at taking the heat but it’ll get done one way or another. The weather forcast is for the mid nineties until Thursday and then a cool down. I wonder how they could stand it years [...]
As another week is ending here on the farm the good ol’ July heat is back. Most of the jobs that were planned got done, not all, but most. At least all the cement pouring was done during cooler weather. Even then there are few jobs that are tougher. When the last ready mix truck [...]
Over the past few years since I bought my first computer, five years to be exact, I’ve used it mostly for agriculture information. Rarely if ever do I surf the net. I didn’t even know what a blog was until this spring when I stumbled onto Scott’s blog, Homesteader Life. Before that the only interaction [...]
This has to be one of my favorite times of the year. The garden is producing heavily providing our family with meals that just can’t be bought in stores. Eating “fresh” chicken and enjoying the tail end of the rasberry crop. The grain fields are golden and being swathed, oats, barley, and wheat all grow [...]
I wasn’t planning on posting today because I figured I’d be swathing oats and am not adjusted yet to the possibility that such a thing as rain could accure more than once in the same month. But it rained again today, about three quarters of an inch, and I praise God! Not even a storm [...]
A warm July Sunday in central MN. A typical Sunday around here as far as what we were doing. The only work is the nessesary chores starting around six AM. Feed and water the chickens, then hop in the old pickup and drive around to the different pastures to see what trouble the angus [...]
It’s Saturday evening and the week around here is winding down. This week has been a tough one with the heat and dryness we’ve been going through. One pasture was almost shot where we have 20 cow-calf pairs. About the only thing growing were the thistles. But that pasture must have some good grass because [...]
So I found out today I’m a radical. Old mind my own business me.
Rachel and I were doing some light fence tune ups this afternoon that involves riding around in my rusty but trusty old Chevy pickup. On the way out to the first pasture we stopped at the mailbox and picked up the [...]
Yesterday was my high point of summer at the mailbox out on the gravel road. The summer edition of Small Farmer’s Journal” finally arrived. It’ll take me a few weeks to go through most of it but I’ve been paging through it and it strikes me how much I’m in tune with it or is [...]
This morning we butchered a dozen roosters that were raised up in the old coop. This was the first butchering this year so I just wanted to do a few to get everything in order. After figuring out some used equiptment that I bought from a neighbor it finally got underway. All went smoothly and [...]