Things are going good around here with the weather cooperating, just a bit below freezing and sunny out. We’ll have to start some seeds in a few days, been holding back enough on that. I’ll be off the computer for a bit, well, for forty days and forty nights starting Wednesday. I figure I want [...]
Another week is coming to an end around the farm, all in all a very good week. Winter is hanging tough here, the sun is gaining in power, but the temperatures aren’t. But if a person gets on the south side of a building outside it seems downright warm. I just got in from Saturday [...]
“When the Government Fears the People, There is Liberty; When the People Fear the Government, There is Tyranny†- Thomas Jefferson
One thing that I’ve been finding out lately as I talk to farmers and others about saving seed or GMO’s is that they will look at a person a little strange. At first I [...]
Every once in a while I try to post something that’ll help folks that move out to the country. Some information that you won’t find very often in farming or homesteading books or magazines, or anywhere for that matter. This one is titled, “How To Rustle Up A Meal When The Cook Is Goneâ€.
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It’s almost fifty degrees warmer this afternoon than it was Saturday morning. And it’s still not above freezing, but it sure is more livable. The seat in the old farm truck has returned to being somewhat comfortable, compared to having the same effect as sitting on a cement slab during the cool days. So, all [...]
This past week has been an interesting one with the subject of education and the continuation of the family farm. Below is a Thomas Jefferson quote that sums it up quite well. Could a person imagine what it would be like if a priority in today’s society would be to educate people for “real farming†[...]
What a day with the outside cattle waterers, they were pretty froze this morning! But things are in working order now around here and we’re even a little above zero. At least we have a little snow on the ground protecting the hay lands, so the cold snap shouldn’t have bothered that.
Life here is [...]
One word, “coldâ€!! That settles that. Supposed to have fifty below wind chill tonight. That’ll put frost on the pumpkin. All in all it went well in the sub zero day here. Firing up the furnaces and busting open cattle waterers is the normal day in something like this. By tomorrow I’m sure [...]
Windy and cold, and getting colder this late in the day here. I got everything done and headed for cover, spring is not in the air here. More like Siberia. They say it’s supposed to be colder tomorrow so I figure the family should pack up after morning chores and head north around twenty miles [...]
Sounds like it’s going to be a little on the cold side in a few days around here. Not big time cold, just below zero a ways. Now to you folks living points south, I’ll include a little primer here so you’ll see how much wood we do use to keep warm. Now understand, [...]