Category: November 2015
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Footprints in the Snow
November 30, 2015 Today marks the last day of November. As I pause to think about this month gone by, I am reminded that “time marches on”. The month flew by and this year is quickly fading into a memory. My birthday is less than two weeks away and I…
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Nothing Like a Fire
November 20, 2015 Tonight the temperature is dropping. It is still a very nice night for late November, but all of us farm critters feel the nip in the air. The cattle and sheep are full, chewing their cud and resting happily. The pigs are all huddled down in their…
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Coffee and a Book!
November 19, 2015 What a great week this has been! First my book came out and yesterday, I learned the secret to percolating coffee. I find myself humbled by both events! It is kind of funny how both things go together; Both of them took over twenty-five years to come to…
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Coffee Time
November 18, 2015 This morning, after 25 years of making coffee wrong, I made the best coffee ever. I enjoy a good cup of perked coffee. I thought that I knew exactly how my mother made it. I was wrong… I “Googled it”. Turns out you don’t have to boil…
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Living the Good Life
November 13, 2015 These hogs have been out on pasture since July 4th. They get supplemented with ear corn, but forage for much of their food. It is no accident that they are in this good condition. I grow red clover and fescue pasture for them. I look after them…
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Thanks To Veterans
November 11, 2015 One of the brightest lights in our world today… the American Military. Thanks to all of you veterans…past and present
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Off to the Woodshed
November 10, 2015 What a rainy day today was. It drizzled all day, forcing me to work inside. I got a whole bunch of little things done. I got my oil changed in the log splitter and I fixed a piece on Duke’s harness. We also fabricated a way to…
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Yippie, We Got An Egg
November 9, 2015 Usually, each year we replace our old flock with a new one. The hens lay eggs very well for the first year. The second year they lay bigger eggs, but less of them. The third year the production drops way off and in year number four, you…
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