Category: July 2015
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Putting Down Roots
July 14, 2015 Our garden is finally starting to flourish. After a slow start, lots of rain and even some hard packed soil, things are really looking up. I was more careful this year to do more companion planting. The cucumbers have benefited from the nearby onions. The squash bugs…
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The Beauty That Surrounds Us
July 13, 2015 Despite all the rain that has caused much delay in dry hay making, the farm is beautiful! The pastures and hay fields are in full bloom. Bees and hummingbirds are flitting everywhere gathering nectar. The blue birds and martins are nurturing babies and teaching fledglings to fly.…
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Its a Wrap!
July 12, 2015 It has been three full days, but the first hay mowing, baling and wrapping, on my farm is done. We beat the rain and things went quite well for our maiden voyage with our used baler and homemade wrapper. It has been a bit of a learning curve…
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What a Show
July 8, 2015 As I was looking through my photos of this year’s Horse Progress Days, I came upon this one of these Percheron horses. I am partial to this breed and especially the black ones. This photo illustrates why. Percheron horses come in a few colors. The black ones…
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A Tale of Two Kitties
July 7, 2015 My granddaughter got to pick out two kittens from our recent litters. I suggested in jest that she should have a kitty and to my amazement, her dad thought so too. These kittens are cute, like all kittens, but they are borderline wildcats. I pick them up…
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Feeling Loaded Down
July 6, 2015 This wagon belongs to David Knepp of Knepp Logging LLC. He and a friend restored it to its former glory. This is a big load of logs and it took eight tough horses to pull it around on the soft ground. It was a hit at Horse…
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Its all about Friends
July 4, 2015 Today we celebrate our country’s birthday and the freedoms that we enjoy. My hope is that you are with friends and family as you do. Of course we love our family. No matter its quirks, love is never lost. Friends are sometimes overlooked. It is awful when…
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Put a Lid on It
July 3, 2015 We managed to get the walls and roof on the sugarhouse addition. Only the doors and batten strips remain to be finished. The addition is turning out even better than I visualized in my head. We even put two skylights in the roof to make use of…
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Hay man! Where’s the sun?
July, 2 2015 The rains keep falling, the grass keeps growing. The clovers and hay grasses continue to ripen. It will be all fine, but I’d sure like to be making dry hay soon. We are making “wet” bales so all is not lost. This will make some very nice…
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