Looks like the next major snow storm since this past weekend has started. The snow started just before dark. I was able to get home in time to do a few extra things in preparation - like bed the cows since they won’t want to leave their shed much for a day or two. The [...]
This afternoon I received a call from my wife to tell me that she had put two vehicles into the ditch going down into the woods next to our steep 600 foot long driveway. Over the weekend we got around 10 inches of snow. Since the snow started out as rain, there is a nice [...]
This weekend we had our first official snow of the winter, over a foot of heavy wet stuff and it makes me happier than a pig in mud. Not the fact that I have to spend the next few days getting wet up to my knees, moving snow all over the farm, no [...]
At the beginning of 2007, my son Nathan, who is living in Virginia, purchased a cow. (He has written about this in an earlier blog post.) He is accustomed to good Jersey milk, but has discovered that this cow is giving exceptionally good tasting milk. This has resulted in a number of discussions, in Virginia [...]
Boy, it’s been over a week since I’ve been on here, where does the time go when a person’s having more fun than anyone should be allowed to have, eh! In Minnesota anything above zero is just too much fun, after the last few weeks it sure is. It’s nice [...]
This next March our township will hold elections for township supervisor. Our township contains a State Park that is a portion of a 5 mile by 10 mile section of woods that existed when settlers first came. The land surrounding this area of woods was maintained as prairie by the burning that the Indians did. [...]
In the last few days I have noticed a billboard advertisement for a large grocery chain. The billboard says “Fastest from field to fruit bowlâ€, along with a picture of some fruit. Sounds nice and it has an appeal when it is around 0 degrees with a 20mph wind, but it seems wrong in the [...]
Winter is not moving along here in Virginia. Tuesday afternoon it started raining and then slowly changed over to sleet and freezing rain. I woke up this Wednesday to find that there is about 2 inches of sleet and rain that has made a sheet on everything in sight. Here in Virginia everything shuts down [...]
Monday evening on the farm and nothing earthshaking happening. In fact it’s kinda on cruise lately. Just get them chores done, make a little wood, do whatever. We’ve been kinda hunkered down with the cold weather lately but the last couple days were a treat with the temps getting into the tropical [...]
It is still cold here in southeast Minnesota. This morning it was around -15. This morning I was very surprised to find that one of our ewes gave birth outside to triplet lambs. Unfortunately two of the lambs froze, but the third is doing very well. I am amazed that the third even survived. I [...]