Category: November 2015
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A Day to Pause
November 8, 2015 Today marks the 50th anniversary of a horrible battle in Vietnam. The battle involved the 173rd Airborne Brigade, nicknamed the “Sky Soldiers” during “Operation Hump”. The history of the battle can be easily researched, but in short 400 Us and Australian forces were met in heavy combat…
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Back Home Again
November 7, 2015 Solomon is back here on our farm. I own him with another like-minded farmer, I get him for half the year, my friend gets him the other half. Solomon is glad to be home. He is familiar with the paddocks and shelters. He understands the “drill” as…
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Buffering
November 6, 2015 In my off farm job, I provide a buffer from upper management to the workforce. I have been in that job for a very long time. It is an important function to be the one who keeps communication flowing up, as well as down. It is a…
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How Now Brown Sow?
November 5, 2015 Tonight, I moved the sows from their summer pasture to a small wooded hamlet. This small forested area is of about three and a half acres. There are hickory nuts and wild apples littering the ground in this place. My foraging mothers will have a great time…
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Off to Work
November 4, 2015 Why is it that on days when we have to go to work, we all move at a snails pace? I even see it in the horses. As we leave the barn and drive off towards a job, they walk very slowly. When we are pulling logs…
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Living on the Edge
November 1, 2015 Wow, the calendar moves again! I am busily preparing for winter. We butchered our last flock of meat chickens this weekend. They have gone off to freezer camp. We also got over two and a half gallons of rich broth from the backs and necks. The chickens grew…
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