A little while back Herrick Kimball, a great writer and a friend sent a copy of his book, “Writings of a Deliberate Agrarianâ€. For anyone that doesn’t know Herrick, his blog is on the sidebar of this one. It’s called “The Deliberate Agrarianâ€. It’s one of my favorite daily stops on the [...]
It’s been lightly raining today, just enough to stop me from any field work, but that’s OK, it always gets done sooner or later. And with our corn we’re not planting for government programs so I’m not worried about planting some high yielding hybrid for maximum bushels to collect LDPs, that Loan [...]
We just got in the house after a pretty good Minnesota day, not the greatest by any means, but good enough. After supper the clan headed for the big garden and finished planting the family’s corn for the year. A few rows of the early corn are already emerging as are the peas also. It’s [...]
Another Sunday is coming to an end around here in a bit and tomorrow we’ll try to get going on planting again after over a weeks rain delay. The next few weeks are by far the busiest of the year here, but a person just does it and it gets done one way [...]
I’m beat, but it feels good to have sore muscles and bones after an honest day’s work. I always like that feeling when the sun is going down and it’s time to call it a day. We’ve been staying out of the field up to now, waiting for them to dry out a [...]
The cattle have their bellies full of water tonight and things are going good. Even I got cleaned up, now the water wasn’t perfect by any means but, it does feel good to get showered up. But it sure did show me an area where a person is vulnerable and dependant on the [...]
I’m checking this new place out and must admit, it’s more user friendly than blogger, even I can understand some of it and that says a lot. I didn’t know it had comment moderation and didn’t figure that out for a bit but got it now. I’ve never been moderate at anything. Over [...]
Day four of rain and mud, but a glimpse of hope this afternoon and evening, the sun tried to pop out. I tagged nine new calves today, but couldn’t catch four of them buggers that were born a couple of days ago. I fell behind on tagging them because of the steady rain, figuring that [...]