The big weekend is a memory, although we really didn’t have any days off here except for parts of Sunday. But there’s always chores to do so that does somewhat limit the range of away from home activities, but then again I figure it does connect a person to reality. Life goes on [...]
In the next few days I’m going to try and put together some information on our chicken tractors. That includes the easy lock into place wheel lift. Also a priority is bullet proofing the whole system against weasels and mink. I was going to take photos this evening of some of the parts [...]
Hot one today! One week I’m still in long underwear the next we’re getting char broiled out side. Never a dull moment up in the North Country. I just got in from my evening ritual of working in the gardens and I’m beat from the heat. But the hot wind keeps the skeeters in line, [...]
It’s getting warmer and warmer around here the last few days and now the talk is that it’ll be in the nineties over the weekend. That should finally unthaw these old bones a bit. The corn is done here and we’re looking at different projects all of a sudden. Today I claimed another [...]
Things are looking pretty good in the large garden, with everything planted in that one except all the pole beans that’ll be planted with the sweet corns and meal corns. I want the corns to have a bit of a jump start before planting all them beans in there. But melons are in, [...]
We finished another field of corn today from start to finish. Plowed it, picked the rocks, disked it and then planted it. All done now, I mean with that field. Two more to go. I’ll head out to one of them tomorrow if all goes well. Two more calves born today so far [...]
Sunday evening and all is well out here on the farm. Kinda quiet out this evening, cool outside, we even had a frost this morning. But the promise is for some warmer weather on the way. We’ll take the warmer weather. I hope we can finish off the garden by the end of [...]
The week is wrapping up and good progress is being made here with planting. Almost all the important fields are done now so I can calm down a bit. And this evening I was checking out the family corn patch and even the corn planted a week ago is coming up, every variety [...]
We’re finally making progress getting the corn in, thus, it’s rather quiet around here. By tomorrow we should have the greatest percentage in the ground and after that it’s just three smaller fields left to do. Not much to worry about with them, they’ll be for silage only so it’s not as critical [...]
I’d better try an get a short post in here before I fall asleep. Boy, am I ever bushed! Today we made great progress around here in moving cow/calf pairs to different pastures. This consists of identifying pairs out in the seven acre calving lot and heading them towards the corrals, locking them [...]