Category: October 2013
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The Gang’s All Here!
October 31, 2013 Today is Halloween. I don’t get all the hype about ghosts, monsters and especially zombies. What happened to dressing up like a cowboy or a hobo? Girls used to dress up as princesses or Raggedy Anne. Costumes were cute on kids and yes every now and…
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I Tried … Really!
October 26, 2013 Why is it that every year the first snow catches me off guard? I laid these hoses up on the trailer in the sun. I was sure they would warm up and be easy to coil, then put away. I laughed when I saw them, buried…
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Wonderland
October 25, 2013 Yesterday morning I snapped this picture. I don’t care where you live or what you love, but anyone can see the beauty in this photo. I stood awhile and just looked at the landscape that makes up our farm, seeing God’s handiwork left me in awe.…
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Squaw Winter !
October 24, 2013 Squaw Winter has arrived, as my great-grandfather would have said, now, we will get Indian Summer. I hope he is right! I moved all the livestock yesterday getting ready for last night’s storm. The rain came cold and plentiful, followed by sleet then snow. My most…
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Hey Man… I gotta split!
October 23, 2013 My day off from work, finds me once again playing out in the rain, but “Hey man, I gotta split…all this wood 😮 We made much progress yesterday, but plenty of work remains. I like this job. It’s easy to see what you have accomplished by the…
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All of Us Are Gleaning
October 22, 2013 Gleaning is an old word for cleaning up the last of something. Usually this word is used for going back over a harvested field and getting anything that was missed or left over. The animals have sure done a good job in the corn field! …
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Saying the “W” Word
October 20, 2013 I hate to say the word “winter” this early in the season, but the cold rainy nights make me think of the white that will surely come. I see many things that need addressed before then. The good news is, that the list is small. I…
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Getting Along in Spite of Ourselves
October 19, 2013 The rains are back. We had a great couple of weeks at the start of the month, but now, water stands everywhere again. The cold autumn rain falls steadily as I write. The rain gauge says just under two inches since last Wednesday. The clock is…
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Chicken Dinner?
October 17, 2013 Currently, I am multi-specie grazing our old corn field. I have cows in there, along with pigs and chickens. The cows eat some of the nubbin ears that the picker missed. They also knock some off onto the ground. The pigs eat what the cows miss.…
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Filtered Light
October 15, 2013 The photo above reminds me of my life. It is beautiful. The light shines through just enough to make for a pretty scene. The shadows represent the past and some not so great things, but beyond all of the dark, the light shines through. I…
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