The last few days the weather has been beautiful around these parts and the farm country has come alive with harvest finally. Most of the beans are taken off the fields now in the area and I’d say as of today the corn harvest has started in full swing. This evening’s calm out and [...]
I was looking at our front yard the last few days and all the maple leaves were making me wonder about raking em up and maybe throwing them on the garden or something. I didn’t get around to it, this and that keeping me away from that job. Well, as of today they [...]
One word to describe what’s going on here on the farm is “wet”. Not complaining though, a drought farmer should never complain about that. The ducks of ours sure seem to love it. Now, I’ve been farming for years and years and I don’t ever seem to have a problem butchering any animal around [...]
A nice day in the northland, abundant sunshine and abundant Asian Beetles everywhere. Yesterday was about the worst I’ve seen this year with them Lady Bug look alikes. There were thousands around the outside of the house and its at times like that when I break tradition and spray them things. Either that or have [...]
The color is on the down slide in this area as far as the leaves are concerned. More and more falling daily and soon it will be a past event. The moister level is fairly good now after the weekend rains and it looks like the hays and grasses should be fairly healthy [...]
We have a rainy Sunday afternoon here in central Minnesota and I just finished up locking up the cows across the county road a few minutes ago and decided to come in out of the drizzle that’s taking place at the moment and set a spell. We returned from an area north west [...]
Tuesday evening and I am just a little bit on the shot side tonight. Cutting wood all day, or most of the day between different chores that pop up here and there. It was raining in the morning and I just worked outside right through it to get er done and out of [...]
I had better write this post fast because I don’t know when I’ll have to unplug the old computer. Looks like rain coming and I hate frying computers from lightening, been there, done that, and I don’t want the expense of a new one this year, (or next). No I’ll just keep [...]
Its finally Saturday evening and I’m a bit too tired to do anything beyond setting back tonight. Fresh air and honest work have a way of doing that to a fella. Got the fence all up across the county road and the cows are getting fat the last couple of days and it [...]
Day after day putting up fence around here and I should be finished up tomorrow Lord willing! The weather was good today, sunny out and in the sixties and they’re talking up frost tonight and tomorrow night. I had frost on the building roofs this morning for a bit but don’t see any [...]