Category: November 2021
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Snowvember 2021
November 30, 2021 It has been another moist month! Rain and drizzle fell until the middle of the month, when the precipitation turned to sleet and snow. The moisture has made things difficult for most farming operations. Thankfully our harvest is done. We just struggle with wet pastures. The cattle…
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Thank Full !!
November 26, 2021 What a wonderful day yesterday was. Plenty of great tasting food, some family , some friends and a good day to pause and reflect. Our hogs are ready for freezer camp. They have grown nicely and are now eating only our farm raised ear corn. The weather…
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Corn Crop Seed for 2022 , Saved!
November 12, 2021 One of the things that I wrap up before the bad weather comes, is to set my next year’s seed corn in a cool dry place. It will dry down more. Then one winter day I will shell the ends off of the ears, followed by shelling…
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2021 Corn Harvest Complete
November 8, 2021 We finished picking our corn last Saturday. Pictured above is one of our wagon loads. It was a fair harvest, but the good thing is, we got enough! There will be plenty to feed out until next year’s crop has been picked. This labor of love I…
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Signal of the Coming Months
November 6, 2021 We have had a couple mornings of cool temperatures with frost on the rooftops and even one morning with a skiff of snow. Today was different. The water puddles were frozen over and the whole scene was white. The killing frost that signals the end of the…
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