The calves are all home as of this evening. And three quarters of the cows too. But the big thing is that they are not together. And is it ever noisy here, wow! The only way that I can hope to get any sleep will be with a box fan set on medium in the [...]
I tell you, the weather just doesn’t get much better than this. Sunny, low sixties, no wind, trees turning color, wow! Flood waters continue going down, I went and checked one fence today but couldn’t quite get up my nerve to attempt repairing it yet. I swim like a rock so it can wait a [...]
There’s very few jobs that I like more than stacking firewood. It’s quiet, darn good exercise, and for some reason it puts me into the mood to just think and reflect on life like no other job can. This past week sure has had it’s ups and downs here, most things went very good except [...]
You know, as I was just coming on site to write this evening I looked at the screen and it said that I’ve posted 70 posts so far, before this one. I never realized that, never looked at the right spot on the screen before I guess. People are going to start thing that [...]
It looks like the garden is going to be a memory after tonight. Not a frost warning, but a freeze warning for tonight, and the temperature doesn’t have to far to drop to get there either. Seen my first snow of the season today, just a trace, but still snow. Earlier this week week we [...]
Back when I first started this blog I wrote one of my favorite posts to this day. It was about the country folk and how we live around here. I truely love the different people that somehow make it out here doing what the modern world figures we shouldn’t be doing anymore. By that I [...]
What a day here, warm and sunny. Most years we wean calves by now but this year it’ll happen a week or so later. Conditions have improved that much in the pastures that we’ll wait a few days longer to catch the calves. It can be quite an affair trying to catch and separate the [...]