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  Thought I’d be a little bit different and just post about my week of vacationing on the farm. Thursday, June 1st:  Get up at 6:30 and head to work.  Call Clifton Hill Lumber and ask about 1 x 8 T&G panel.  Agree on a price and too my surprise, they can delivery on Friday! […]

EE Last Friday kids and I planned to participate in the fall prairie burning in our neighborhood. At 8 at morning John Murphy ( Private Land Conservationist – Adair & Sullivan Counties) called me to tell it was cancelled. I stepped outside wondering what could be wrong at that beautiful sunny morning. Apparently, wind was at […]

EE It is hard to believe today that only couple of days ago we had 90 F! Now it is cold, chilly outside. Xena is happy: now she could spend all the time outside. She could, but she won’t. Because she still likes to chase chickens for fun. And chickens want to spend as much […]

(Evia’s Edition — EE in the future) Summer just flew, and beautiful flowers on the prairies were exchanged with tall, yellow grass. Grass is good too, and our lake is blue as the October sky above it, and geese are back, and our dog Xena is not sure if she suppose to guard us from […]

Life continues here.  Now that both kids are being homeschooled, they (and Evia) are free to spend the entire summer here.  In fact, I suspect they will stay until the first snow, and perhaps even longer. Evia is trying her hand at chickens and currently has a flock of about a dozen.  The chicken coop/play […]

Every so often, we actually do get to relax and just listen to nature… When we built the lake a year ago last fall, we had a pair of geese come and call it home, even though it was only half full.  They had a clutch of young ones, four of which made it to […]

I know its been awhile since I posted.  Can’t seem to find a decent photo to use.  Today I wanted to use a photo of a 3/4″ brass elbow.  Why?  Because in February it broke… 4 feet underground,  It was used to connect one of our hydrants to our water main.  Why did it break? […]

This is Martha.  Of all the cattle we have handled, Martha was the most challenging to get caught in the head catch.  The photo is the result of try 7, where we paid a LOT of attention to things like her foot placement. She has never been a problem to get into the squeeze chute, […]

Well… the loss of Vixen was a major blow to the family, but we have moved on.  After a month or so, we started our search for a new puppy.  We spent a lot of time looking at breeds related to Bernese Mountain Dogs, except with longer expected lifetimes.  For those that know me, you […]