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My hands got very cold while I was doing rounds this morning. Even an hour of having them stuffed into my heavy winter work gloves and chasing my horse around the round pen wasn’t enough to warm them up. I … Continue reading
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The minivan has a new pair of tires and the barn has new residents tonight. The sweet potatoes came out of the ground today. Well, they didn’t just jump out of the ground. First things first. I began by pulling … Continue reading
I sent my son out to the garden this evening to pick some bell peppers for tonight’s chili. From the window, I watched him go to the wrong row in the garden so I stepped out on the deck to … Continue reading
Aside from all the haying hooha, there are a lot of other things going on at the farm. Somewhere last week, I found time to plant 50 sweet potato slips. I watered them in and watered them again the next … Continue reading
So many things! The weather forecasters said “freeze warning” Friday night and even though we’re a full two weeks past our average first frost date here, I’ll admit it caught me a little by surprise. What had been a low … Continue reading
So, it’s Friday. It’s beautiful, though a bit windy. I just couldn’t concentrate on much of anything. After moving and feeding the chickens and feeding and working the horses, I looked around my farm trying to pick one thing. That’s … Continue reading