One thing I’ve observed over the years is women. What can I say, eh. But one thing that has been noticeable through time is who makes it out here and who don’t. You know a man is only as good as his wife out here. If you have a wife that wants the big city [...]
Tomorrow I’m officially fifty years into my eternal journey and today I was looking back at the first forty nine years, reflecting a bit. So many changes in such a short time, some for the good, many not so good. But around here it’s overwhelmingly for the good. I was out in the woods, praising [...]
The end of another week and it feels good to relax a little tonight. Just got back from town doing a little shopping. The town has a WalMart but we didn’t go there. When I go shopping it’ll be at a farm supply store. If they don’t got it, you don’t need it. Bought a [...]
I can’t speak for people in any other area of this world simply because I don’t know that much about them, just what I read is basically it. Up here a person could say that I’m a product of the northern plains. It’s a bountiful area, and where we live is called the transition zone. [...]
When a person travels through farming country in summer time it’s a beautiful site to behold. Beautiful fields stretching sometimes to the horizon. In the Midwest you see hundreds of miles of beautiful corn and beans almost everywhere a person travels. But this beauty is about as real as a supposedly beautiful movie star, that’s [...]
Warmed up today a bit, I think it got into the teens and felt darn near tropical working outside all day. We’re busy now separating calves into different groups and also tomorrow I want to separate out around fifty cows to spend the remainder of winter in a different lot that we have across the [...]
Life is getting interesting out here on the farm lately. A few short weeks ago we had a guest from Kentucky stop by for a whirlwind visit. Rick Saenz of Cumberland Books dropped by one rather cool Thursday morning to do an interview for an agrarian project he has in the works. It was a [...]
Well, the week is wrapping up here and I’m more than satisfied. The last few days it’s been snowing gently off and on pretty much all the time. A little winter wonderland. It’s sometimes so quiet outside with the snow falling it gives a person those moments when he can reflect on just about anything. [...]
I think it’s officially winter here because our world is white now on the farm. And it’s been busy but not overwhelming. The main jobs are winter feeding no matter what the weather and making firewood. That outdoor woodstove that we installed to heat three buildings sure is a hungry bugger. I feel like the [...]