Remember when I said try not to bale your hay if rain is pending? Because then it is hard to salvage if it gets wet… . Well, Miss Executive Decision Maker, spoke the words “Bale it!” With a shrug, DH climbed on his trusty steed and baled away. My thinking was, we hardly ever get [...]
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Who put the ape in apricot?
Posted in easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, recipes, redneck moments, tagged easily amused, farm life, personal, recipes on August 5, 2008 | 17 Comments »
When I was little, I was always impatient with Fred Flintstone because when the cat threw him out for the night, he pounded on the door to have Wilma let him in, when he could have easily climbed in the window, because there was NO GLASS! I always dreamed that I would marry someone like Roger [...]
Just shut up and can, can, can
Posted in canning, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, personal, redneck moments, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, redneck moments on August 2, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I love that song, Just Shut Up and Drive. I find that one in my head a lot. But, sometimes it has to be the homestead version… .
It’s no secret I like to can. Or put up food. It is comforting to me and I like the process. But, being a claustrophobic farmgirl tomboy, I [...]
No one else on earth
Posted in easily amused, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged farm life, personal on July 26, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Anyone could see the road that they walk on, is paved in gold.
It’s always summer, they’ll never get cold.
They’ll never get hungry, they’ll never get old and gray…” from The Way, by Fastball
Or so we thought.
Today is our 30th anniversary of sorts. We’ve been together for 30 years, but only married 17. Why such a [...]
Honky tonk bulldonkadonk!
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, cattle, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed on July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Linda wanted to see Henry’s other asset, so here it is.
That is definitely a standing rump roast! Nice dapples there you!! When the cows are slick in the summer, their dapples look like maple leaves, instead of round like horses dapples.
Naptime.
I’m trying to get my hay post done, and I have to do an anniversary [...]
Mad heifer disease
Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged agriculture, beef cattle, cattle, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing on July 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This bruiser arrived by Bull Express on Tuesday. His name is Henry.
The steers like to hang out with bulls, and try to pick up a few pointers.
Henry will be here for 6 weeks, which will allow him to cover the cows through two heat cycles. If a cow doesn’t breed back in two heat cycles, [...]
July 4th
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments, tagged early days, easily amused, farm life, lost skills, redneck moments on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As promised…
Black walnut hub, cherry spokes.
Tool kit - fuses, and charges.
Loading the charge. 4 ounces, RS - FFG equivalent.
Tamping the charge.
Skull and crossed pipe wrenches.
Lit fuse.
Target - 100 yards.
One snooker ball sized hole. Three ball in the side pocket!
Looking back at the cannon.
The smoking gun.
I stayed at the house with the dogs, and got some work [...]
Moo & Jo Jo, a tale of two toys
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged farm kids, farm life, history, personal, quilts, unschooling on May 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I don’t want to mess up my kid. I know, it may be too late already, but at least I’m aware of the potential of that happening. I think. **Warning, this is a post-ovulation post, meaning it’s sure to be emotional, written on a day, that if I hear a song like Seminole Wind , I start [...]
Home again, Home again, jiggety-jig
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, personal, redneck moments, tagged Belly Acres (rant), easily amused, farm kids, farm life, personal, pigs, redneck moments, scenery on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We went on our excellent adventure yesterday. Even though we have been cutting back on grain eating animals, we still haven’t weaned ourselves off of pork. Normally, we bought 7 -10 weaners and would use them to work our compost piles, or to turn the deep bedding in our feeding sheds. Re-thinking this portion of [...]
“I hit a critter”
Posted in cattle, early days, easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, tagged easily amused, farm life on April 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Before I started this blog, my daughter wanted me to call in to a radio station that was looking for your “best redneck story.” We couldn’t get through and it was a good thing, I had so many, we couldn’t decide which one to use. We were laughing so hard from thinking about some of the [...]
It’s not chicken feed
Posted in cattle, compost, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, pastured poultry, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, farm life, pastured poultry on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My meat chicks are scheduled to arrive April 29th, so I had to order their food today. The feed mill that makes our chicken mash wanted 2 weeks notice. He is hanging on by a thread, with the current grain prices. Last year, our old feedmill went out of business, and sent us scrambling to [...]
What??
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), easily amused, farm life, redneck moments, wildlife, tagged easily amused, farm life, redneck moments on March 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I started out writing a post about firewood, since that’s what I concentrated on yesterday. But, the outside world can creep up on us in a flash. After reading my mail and listening to a message on our phone recorder, I lost my concentration.
Received in the mail: a newsletter from our health insurance co. with [...]
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