Category: May 2011
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PaPa and MiMi’s Farm
May 18, 2011 Babies raising babies makes people think about teenagers raising children from bad decisions they made. Here on Papa and Mimi’s farm its about children feeding our farm’s babies… a much better analogy. This is what it’s all about for me. Most of my favorite…
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I Love Bacon!
Come here little fellas May 14, 2011 Sometimes work and life makes us way too busy. I have been in the busy cycle the last couple of days. My off farm job keeps me hopping, then add lambing and farrowing, sleeping and eating and you can imagine how…
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Won’t Be Long
May 12, 2011 This is a photo from last year. Lucy is our Border Collie who hates to ride, but loves to visit me when the horses rest. She is my companion and farmhand. She knows what is expected of the animals and she makes sure they do…
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Talking with friends
May 12, 2011 Duke and I are talking in the photo above, actually we are both listening. I find often when talking with friends, its best to just sit and listen. They may need to talk. They might not want an answer or even your opinion. They just…
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Silver Linings
May 10, 2011 My whole life has been filled with silver linings. I guess I just try to find good in most everything I do, as well as the people I meet. I will say people are the greatest challenge sometimes. I guees as I age, people bother…
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Here we go again
May 9, 2011 Well its official, I am nuts! Once again we have a bottle baby in our kitchen and hopefully on her way to becoming a grown up ewe one day. Her mother is an old ewe named Persephone. She is acient now and her udder…
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Happy Mother’s Day
May 8, 2011 Today is a day we set aside for mothers.I would like to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, as well as the grandmothers, aunts and any matronly figure who takes the time to love us. My mother has passed from…
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I like the old ways!
May 7, 2011 I like the old ways of farming. It was a simpler time back then when large corporations didn’t control most of the markets. People knew their neighbors and folks helped one another in the struggles of life. Farmers knew their farms, every inch and treated…
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Babies, Babies, Babies
Again the rains continue to hold up field work, but the spring babies keep coming. This little sow , who we call Betty, had ten little piggies. Mom and babies doing fine. Her expectant sister Wilma waits nearby for her due date. Usually we farrow on pasture, but…
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