Well, score another victory for corporate ag. They muscled in here now taking over the local co-op. I’m still a little stunned at it all but will get over it soon enough. I could go on and on about how they did everything illegal during this vote but to what use. That’s the way of [...]
A beautiful day in Central Minnesota. Sunny and in the seventies. But by tommorrow night they’re talking the possibility of a good frost. We’ll cover the tomatoes and peppers this time, not quite willing to give up yet. After covering them a few times and half the time it doesn’t freeze outside anyhow a [...]
To any that have been keeping track here about my feelings of the “Modern” church you know that we finally pulled out of the church that we’ve been going to for fifteen years. It was a difficult decision, but one that had to be made. And when made it was not done lightly. I was [...]
I’m writing this with a hornet stung hand and it smarts something terrible. The other day we had a neighbor girl over visiting daughter Rachel and that girl got stung four places. Had to really feel sorry for her. She sure was in some kinda pain. But we had some herbal skin cream from the [...]
What a surprise this early morning, frost! Well, it wasn’t to bad, didn’t even kill the tomatos, but it’s a wake up call for things to come. One thing about cool fresh fall air is that at the end of the day a person feels tired but content. And sleep is so good compared to [...]
According to the calendar this is the last day of summer and it feels like it here in the upper midwest. Warm and muggy out,very little wind, with gnats and skeeters trying to eat us alive. But the joke’s on them because there’s a cold front knocking on our door. That should slow them bloodthirsty [...]
Things should be getting back to normal around the farm now that the silage harvest is wrapped up for another year. Praise the Lord that it went well and safe. We were done chopping yesterday evening but covered the pit today and put away equiptment. It’s almost strange to be able to think of the [...]
Well, I’m in this evening early from chopping silage because of a minor breakdown on the chopper. All is going well and I’d say we’re over ninety percent done. Kinda like I am now, about ninety percent done in. Looks like we’ll have more than enough feed for the long winter.
Speaking of breakdowns there [...]
Today will be day two of silage harvest. We put in a full day yesterday without any mishaps and got a lot done. It seems to be going easier with the silage pit that was constructed this past summer. In fact much easier than building our normal large pile. There’s something about harvest in the [...]
A rainy day here in central Minnesota. Didn’t get to chop silage as planned, but around here it doesn’t pay to plan very seriously. One has to live with what we’re dealt day by day in this lifestyle. The rain has a more important purpose than just changing our silage plans, it’ll be toughening up [...]