Category: July 2011

• July 2011

  Blueberries

  The little bush that could! July 7, 2011        The bush in the photo above was planted last year. It had been confined to a pot way too long. The price was right, free, so I gladly planted the forgotten bush. This year it is loaded with blueberries. The…

  July 7, 2011
• July 2011

  My Stinking Truck

  2004 Chevy Silverado HD July 6, 2011        This is a picture of my stinking truck! Now, don’t get me wrong, I love my truck. It’s just that these last few days my truck….  stinks! I went to a man’s house to deliver a goat. When we left my…

  July 6, 2011
• July 2011

  Wood Warms You Twice

  Sugarwood pile waiting to be split July 5, 2011        Our sugarwood, the wood we will use to boil maple sap down to delicious maple syrup, is piled and waiting to be split. It takes a lot of wood to reduce the sweet sap down. We have to boil…

  July 5, 2011
• July 2011

  Knee High

  July 4, 2011        Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday America, a mere 235 years old.      Our corn is up and growing well. It didn’t make knee-high to a man yet but it has surpassed the “knee-high to a grasshopper” stage for sure. The stand looks good.…

  July 4, 2011
• July 2011

  The Answer Man

  Cheese! July 3, 2011        Everybody say cheese…….. “Why Pa-Pa?”         My grandchildren ask lots of questions. They are like newspaper people. They need the who, what, when, and why for everything. I patiently answer as well as I can. Sometimes the questions come faster than I can…

  July 3, 2011
• July 2011

  Plan B

  2011 round bales July 2, 2011        Yesterday after a very long night and not much sleep, we started to bale our first cutting 2011 hay. The plan was for this field to be all baled in small square bales. The small square baler had other ideas.       …

  July 2, 2011