I’m holding back planting seeds indoors this year, last year we were already planting tomatoes and peppers about now. A person gets antsy as winter keeps on keeping on in the north country. It’d be nice to see something growing, even if it’s in the house. But I’ll bite my lip and hold off a [...]
It’s been quite a week around here and it’s slowing down now to where a person can manage it without loosing it. Got some calves sold, got a cow turned into ground beef right here at home. That was kinda neat seeing three generations working on that mean old cow. That’ll teach her. Yesterday [...]
Well, I stepped in it with both feet today. Yesterday afternoon we had some relation over and I was talking farming to the kids. It can’t hurt them getting full of my wisdom, except for an overload, but I try to take it easy on them. They were being filled with my opinions on GMO [...]
Blessings come at a constant pace here on the farm as of late. And I’m very humbled and thankful for them all. Today we went to church and it was very good as always. Besides church being a blessing the ride there can be a blessing in itself. We were a couple of miles away [...]
Just got in from afternoon chores so that wraps up the week around here except for firing up the wood boilers after supper tonight. Still having above normal temps here and we’ll take em. The grounds good and froze so we don’t have a mud problem. Today I went to a town seven miles away [...]
Today we received our Plain Talk CDs, and I’m just starting to listen this evening. Thanks Rick, the check will be in the mail. It’s amazing and humbling, the trip you took around the Mid West to gather these interviews. Last evening while working down here in my nerve center I was listening to [...]
The middle of winter can start to wear on a person a little bit, always walking around taking real little steps because of the ice pack everywhere a person walks. Just takes a little longer to get where your going without breaking body parts. That would be fine and dandy, break something and still have [...]
It’s lightly snowing outside at the moment, but I doubt it’ll amount to much. The weather is still rather mild for up here, if this continues I’d have to mark it down as one of the easiest winters that I’ve ever seen. We’re trying to get caught up a little this week, sometimes it’s just [...]
Another week coming to an end around here on what the history books call the cold north. Well, it’s sure been mild for almost the last month, and we’ll take it. But in the northland there’s always a guilt complex where people always say, “We’re gonna pay for this nice weather!†But I figure it’s [...]
I usually don’t get very much into political matters here, but with this National Animal ID I figure I’ll put in my two cents worth, mostly because of the urging of others. First off, I’m totally against it, period. In my opinion it’s just a tool the industrialists are using for total control of everything. [...]