Well, I’m online again as of a few minutes ago and it feals wonderful being able to type with a keyboard again. Found out today my computer was shot from the storm the other day so we just got back from town with a new one. It’s weird when a person looses all the information [...]
Last night we had a whopper of a thunderstorm. I haven’t seen lightening like that for years. As a matter of fact it hit my computer and I lost the use of the keyboard. I’m typing with the mouse.It’s so, so slow. I’ll be taking the computer in next week to get it fixed. Meanwhile [...]
Every morning I wake up between four thirty AM and five AM. On the average about quarter to five. First thing I do is turn on a small thirteen inch TV with rabbit ears in the kitchen and watch the news to see if the world ended overnight or something nearly as important. So far [...]
Finished up cutting second crop meadow hay this afternoon. That did pretty well in the dry and hot conditions that we had this summer. There’s one more possible hay field to cut that seems to be reawakening after the rains we finally recieved last week. I don’t want to cut hay into the fall because [...]
It’s been nice and cool lately around here. A person can work all day and not work up a sweat. The mornings are a bit chilly, today down into the forties, and I always get a kick out of how when the days are shortening in late summer I don’t notice until all at once. [...]
We just got back from taking a little drive west of here to Amish territory and went to the Amish Mall. That’s a stretch of road where they have their roadside stands set up every mile or so. Even managed to buy a large peach pie for three dollars just before the ladies were going [...]
One has to wonder about what’s all going on in this world. Sometimes some of the jobs a person has on the farm give hours of time to think things over undisturbed. No noise from the world to speak of, just quiet times reflecting. What will the future bring? Should I even worry? The dark [...]
Today was a different day here on the farm. First of all last night I had less than three hours of sleep. To any non farmers out there that have never experienced a dry spell wiping out alot of your years work, here’s the scoop. Last evening before bed I checked the computer radar looking [...]
I wonder what people in the fast lane would say about how things are done around here sometimes. When I go to town for something important, not the big city mind you, just some of the surrounding small towns I don’t even take a billfold with. Cash I carry in my beef herd notebook that’s [...]
c. 1781. “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the [...]