It’s finally drying out
After all the rain, making the fields and garden soppy, it finally quit pouring. Yesterday, Will and Krystal went out to the new corn/pumpkin field and hand planted several trial varieties of corn. If...
This year I get to make three Christmas dinners
We had our regular Christmas dinner on Christmas, then on Sunday, my oldest son, Bill, his wife, Kelly Jo and my adorable year old grandson, Mason came up for a second Christmas, complete with...
Q and A: feeding pumpkins to cattle, making bread, and trimming pigs’ feet
Feeding pumpkins to cattle
How do you feed pumpkins to cattle? Do you chop it, cook it, or just throw it into feed troughs whole? I grew some mangels so how do you feed those.
Gail
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With our guest back home, we’re playing catch-up
Of course, when you have company of any kind, everything switches mode from "normal" to "guest." And, when my daughter Monique, arrived, that's just what happened. I drove her all over our wonderful northland,...
Spring is officially here — we saw robins today
Will bummed me out this morning. He got up earlier than I did and saw our first robin in the tree in our backyard. But I one-upped him when I drove to town this...