Category Archives: farm

Given Dad a hand on the farm-Take Two..

My View for o six to eight hours, moving dirt, and more dirt!   Starting to level it all out, on the top, and on the bottom,  measuring the grade with th lazer level. Loading up old cement blocks to … Continue reading

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Baby Oxen in training and a good visit.

Hi Guys, how about a little cow love today! I got to slip away from the folks for the afternoon and go visit a old friend of mine and her family, we all meet in collage, and her and I were roommates … Continue reading

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The rain or lack of is already having long term effects for 2011

Couple days ago farmer R stopped by and dropped off close to 1000 pds of straw for bedding use on the farm and he asked/told me that he still has four more of these big bales available for me, and … Continue reading

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There is a red head around here that is in BIG Trouble!

So last week a truck pulled in, and farmer T got out and asked real nice if I had any new cats that had showed up to join my barn cats, surprisingly the answer is no, we almost always have at least … Continue reading

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Rising Costs of Meat-Are you feeling the effect yet?

Last weekend, my Step-dad was in the “big city” for work and we did a meet up for a visit, lunch and then to give him a ride to the airport, one of our stops from his downtown hotel was the big … Continue reading

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Wild Winds

Well, yesterday the power went out, and at first the local radio said a few thousand were without power, then a couple hours later it was ten thousand and this morning at 5:30 it was a hundred thousand were without … Continue reading

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Happy Earth Day!

So what are you doing for Earth Day? We are having a tiny bit of sun and while I am still under the weather, its now more cold then flu and so I got to spend a bit of time … Continue reading

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Hugelbeet-Round 2

So we are now working on our second big full sun Hugelbeet, we measured them today as DH and I were not in agreement on the size of them, so the first smaller one is 14 feet by 8 feet … Continue reading

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Natural Cleaning in the Kitchen

Yesterday as I was doing my prep work to get the next rounds of Corn Beef, an then planning on the next step making Pastrami, As well as corning Tongue, and today I will do the prep work required to … Continue reading

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Road still closed do to spring flooding..

I belong to a truly wonderful girls night out group, which I call Pie, Wine and Knit night, this ladies are so amazing, I can’t express how much I enjoy my bit if time off the farm to have adult … Continue reading

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