Category: May 2020
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Planting and Growing Season
May 29, 2020 If you strain your eyes a bit, you can see this year’s corn peeping through the ground. The hot weather and recent rains have done their magic. Weeding by cultivation begins soon. More on that in the coming weeks. Obviously, the field corn for the animals has…
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It’s Dinner Time
May 26, 2020 As we celebrate Memorial Day with a picnic, good food, friends and family, lets not forget the men and women who died making it all possible. My gang of four, all of them grabbing a bite to eat on the way to the big pasture. It has…
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Repairs and Renovations
May 21, 2020 Our recent wet weather has field work stalled, but there is still plenty to do. Last week, we renovated the horse’s stalls. This week, I repaired the back fence of the feedlot. The fence had fallen into disrepair, from horses reaching over the fence panels to nibble…
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Patience and Fun
May 11, 2020 My son’s horse, the right side in the photo, on her maiden voyage as a teammate. She did very well for her first time. My son has been training her for several months. She just turned two-years old. She walked off quite well and only fidgeted a…
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Logging, Lessons and Leisure
May 6, 2020 Its early spring. Everything is too wet for farm field work. We are filling our days with projects that fit the farm plan, the weather and the pandemic leisure time. I opened our maple sap woods to let in more sun for growing maple trees. This “crop…
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