The chicks are now five weeks old. The newness has definitely worn off (as well as the cuteness factor),but the kiddos are still doing a great job taking care of them. Our original agreement was that I’d build the coop and teach Potato Boy and Sissy how to care for the birds on a daily […]

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One of the first questions the DW and I fielded from the kiddos when we told them we were moving to an acreage caught me off guard. It wasn’t about the house, or switching schools, or a tree house, or dogs and cats, or even how soon we were moving… all of those questions would […]

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A few weeks back I was helping my brother set a few fence posts in his pasture. Here’s what the corner post hole looked like when I was done digging…. The hole was just under four feet deep and full of water. Now compare that to what we dug through while putting the pasture fence […]

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Whatever it takes to get them into books early… I just hope she doesn’t think she’s picking out a premature birthday gift… Who could say no to that face?

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I stated in a post a few days ago that there wasn’t much incentive for Google to update its maps near our location because not much changes around here. Well, after getting side tracked by Google Maps, I went even further off track and started looking through some old USDA records. These USDA photos prove […]

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Lulu and I were out at my parents’ place last weekend. I was trying to get a couple good photos of a calf we’re planning on selling this winter and Lulu wanted to see Grandma eat ice cream. The bull photo didn’t turn out half bad. Cattle photography is actually an entire industry onto itself. […]

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With the events of the last few weeks (more on that tomorrow) I’ve been a little behind on some of the updates I was originally going to post a while back. There’s quite a list at this point – even when things are normal, there’s a ton of things going on this time of year […]

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It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve shared progress on the pasture. Now that the pasture fence is almost complete, it’s starting to look a little more like pasture and less like a random patch of weeds. It’s getting easier to spot the clover and the alfalfa. The various grasses are filling in. If you […]

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Last week I wrote about Sissy’s first adventure showing cattle and mentioned she was working on another “project” this year even though we wouldn’t be returning to the field day. Sissy joined 4-H last fall and has been working with a steer named Cubbie off and on since last November as her first 4-H project […]

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I realized tonight that I was behind on my posts. I’m still recovering from this weekend. Late last week I got a wild hair and rounded up a post auger for the front of my skid loader, my brothers, and a couple hundred fence posts. We dug the first hole around 7:30 Saturday morning and […]

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