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that same deer again
So we stopped by the farm last night to water a few tomatoes. When Amanda and I pulled in the driveway, the same young buck was feeding on the seckel pears. I stopped the truck, opened the door and got out. I started walking down the driveway right towards him, leaving Amanda in the truck. This time I walked all the way to about 15 feet from ( Read more... ) -
irrigation systems and deer....
On Sunday, Dad and I built a gravity-fed irrigation system for the tomato patch. It consists of a 500 gallon stock tank on a trailer that is set up on the hill about 15-20 ft above the garden patch. The spring creek runs between the tank and the garden, so we dug a hole in the spring creek and placed a washtub with small drilled holes around it ( Read more... ) -
Till Harvest Do We Part……
That line comes from a goofy conversation we were having on Sunday about killing your wife through harvest labor while we were on the second leg of grain shoveling in the hot, relentless, humid, summer heat.
Harvest was insane this year. I learned a few lessons, got some lucky breaks, and some not so lucky ones as well.
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its crazy fall time...
Watching the rain clouds soaking everything this morning from my office window. I've got 18 days till my wheat has to get planted. Its crunch time, and I have alot of work yet to do ( Read more... ) -
a small farm update
The last 2 previous weekends I have cut 32 acres of grass. That's alot of grass cutting, but the whole farm is whacked down for the winter ( Read more... ) -
2009 Winter Wheat Harvest videos
Here are 2 small video clips shot on Saturday, June 27, 2009.
I'll post pictures and details later.
John Deere Model 45 Combine Harvest
Loading Grain with Model 45 John Deere Combine
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harvest is done!
All that's left is taking the grain trailer to the elevator in the morning ( Read more... ) -
Stream of Consciousness
An annual pilgrimage back to the Mother ( Read more... ) -
The Garden
Well, I got the garden planted yesterday. I tried a week and a 1/2 ago, but with messing with the fuel pump issues with my Ranger, and then towing it down to the farm that Sunday, I was not able to get plants before Stuckmeyer's closed. (I can't get down there before 6pm - their closing time, during the week ( Read more... )
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