Well, the first law of physics is holding true around here. A waterer for the cattle sprung a hole in the bottom on Saturday afternoon. I can’t believe it, it’s always from Saturday afternoon until Sunday evenings that these events take place. Never during the week. Luckily it’s right around freezing, hot for Minnesota, and [...]
Taking a break from some corn shelling in the house for a bit. We received about seven inches of snow in the last twenty four hours, plus it’s still warm outside. Shelling corn like so many other things gives a person an opportunity to think or just plain dream. I guess that’s one thing nice [...]
By the looks of the radar we might be in for a humdinger of a snow. It’s just started as I write this but things are in pretty good shape here, so if it’s a big hit we can take it. A herd of cows with snow on their backs in the morning is always [...]
Busy around this place the last few days. The weather has switched from blue skies and beautiful to a kind of a pea soup. Cloudy with warm air that makes fog and mist. But work has to be done and this weather is giving us an opportunity to clean the calf barns. The manure pack [...]
Another beautiful day up here and the snow cover is taking a heavy hit. Into the forties and sunny, no wind. Things are good. The next couple of days I won’t be posting but I will check up on things. We’ll be busy starting tomorrow with family and church. Also it’s daughter Rachel’s birthday [...]
Life marches on here in the frozen north. I think today was the second day of official winter, which always makes me wonder who ever figured that sure ain’t from Minnesota. Winter sometimes starts here in October and breaks sometime in April. But today was a rare day, no wind and the temps got into [...]
I’m busy but want to post a quick one. I don’t even know why because I don’t have one thing to say. Might be the best blog yet. Anyway there’s not to much earthshaking news from the farm in the frozen north. I just came in the house to unthaw a bit, that’s one thing [...]
In the countryside people have a habit of knowing more about their neighbors than the neighbors know about themselves. It’s strange but true. In the city people have no idea what others are doing and they probably don’t give a hoot either. If you want out of society I think the best place to get [...]
The end of the week approaches and it was different with the weather snowing for so many days straight, but it’s calming down to some Minnesota nice weather. There was blue skies today, finally, and we were splitting wood this morning, working up a sweat with the temp at five above zero. It might get [...]
It’s been snowing for a couple of days now in this area and I figure we have between eight and ten inches of the heavy wet stuff. Just came in to the house now and I’m wet up to my knees. In fact it’s dripping on the cement floor, but I have to get out [...]