Today is a kind of milestone for this thing called Northern Farmer Blog. It’s the 365th day in existence. The birthday is tomorrow, May 1st, which was on a Sunday, raining out, just like this year. I guess I was bored, a rainy day in May, so I was fiddling with the computer and ended [...]
It has rained here all day non stop, and we’ll take it. Changed clothes three times already today, soaked to the skin and all mudded up. But so far so good with the calving, no disasters. Almost feels strange not working full bore outside today, but when that sun comes out someday soon, the grass [...]
This morning is rainy, chores are done, finally, I’m drying off in the house, so I figured I’d post a couple photos of some of our home grown layers. Time to reload the incubator.
Today we’re getting the first real rain of the year in our neck of the woods and it’s welcome. It’s not a driving rain and should help the oats, alfalfa and grass that we have planted. So this is the first official Farmers Holiday of the season. Besides chores and an occasional check [...]
Plowing the soil is about as old as creation, the methods have changed here and there, but the end result is the same as in the beginning, to turn over the soil in preparation for a crop to help feed man. There’s just something about that job that can make a person reflect on a [...]
After yesterday’s cool down and almost rain, today was beautiful and sunny. It’s getting a bit dry but that can change in the blink of an eye. So we’ll just get as much work done as possible while we can. Yesterday JM was over, so now instead of somebody from way over in Indiana stopping [...]
Another Sunday come and almost gone here on the farm. And let me tell you it just doesn’t get any better than the way the weather was, or is today. Talk about perfection! Sunny skies, almost no wind and in the seventies. The calves are coming into this world in about as good of conditions [...]
As the week wraps up around here things are slowing down gradually. All is well. The early seeding got finished this week, the first batch of chicks from our incubator are in the brooder house doing fine, the females will be added to the laying flock. Next week we’ll reload the incubator for round number [...]
The oats is all planted and also the various hays that we plant with it. All in all, things are moving along around here just fine. Calves are being born right and left, in fact I was a tad bit confused today. I had a calf that I couldn’t match up with a mother this [...]
Almost done planting oats and hay here. About an hours worth left, but we just got chased off the field by lightening, OK, so I’m a chicken. But at least I’m not fried chicken.Tomorrow is time to do some teaching and preaching at the Little Bible Believing Church in the Hills but I’ll write [...]