The week and the month are coming to an end around here, doesn’t make all to much difference to me though. The weather is warm, but on Wednesday we received two inches of rain, badly needed rain and that snapped the corn back in shape in a hurry! The cobs are getting huge, fast, [...]
For over a month now I had me a worry, a worry about how I was going to chop that Goliath corn I had planted. In mid July we had some very good rains and the stuff did what it was supposed to do. It grew, and it grew big. Then right after [...]
I wrote this post on the Healing Waters blog and decided to put it on here also.
As the days go by the harvest is coming closer to being completed. In a few days I think we’ll be starting the main chop of corn silage. Its drying down much faster than I had planned. There hasn’t [...]
Kind of the August dull drums around here. Hot for the last few days and getting drier by the day. Pastures are burned off pretty much,any hay growth is stopped. But its a hundred times better than the last couple years! One good rain in July made the corn go for it and [...]
In the four years to follow, the spirit of religious revival, and particularly the camp-meeting variety, seemed to be dying away. Robert witnessed this with a heavy heart, but fought back with an increase in personal activity to do his share in trying to overcome such spiritual apathy. The people alone could not be blamed, [...]
I can tell that the days are getting a little shorter and to tell you the truth, its all right with me. Still plenty long to get done what ever needs to get done but in a month or two it’ll be considerably shorter. Rest up these old weary bones. Took the silage chopper out [...]
As of today the combining and the baling of the straw is done. Amen! Glad that itchy job is over with and also glad and thankful for such a wonderful crop! Getting dry here again, thinking about pulling a pasture next week. Nothing left, just to dry out there on that pasture. But [...]
Posting is kinda on the back burner this week with oats combining and straw baling taking place around here. All is going well so far and if all holds together, (literally), we should wrap up combining tomorrow and baling the day after that. Just came in for the day, everything went well, no [...]