Who put the ape in apricot?

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 [...]

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Just shut up and can, can, can

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 [...]

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Honky tonk bulldonkadonk!

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 [...]

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Puppy love

 This post is for dog lovers.
My baby is one today.  It’s been a fun year, we had no idea who this guy was, that we brought into our lives last September.  He was just #8, my husband picked him out from several pictures that the breeder emailed us.
pup # 8

A wagon load of cuties, I [...]

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July 4th

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 [...]

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One more promise

Jetta told me this morning if I didn’t wear this to the barn, she would try to have her calf tonight. 
I guess since I don’t wear much jewelry anyway, I can promise this.

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Home again, Home again, jiggety-jig

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 [...]

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I’ve given up…, and chicken cheese!

This part of waiting for the family cow to freshen, drives my family crazy!  I have given up, I will not check or look out the window and exclaim when I see Jetta peeing or looking at the ground at that imaginary calf.    Hopefully, if I relax, she will, and something will happen.  Cows that [...]

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“I hit a critter”

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 [...]

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Boop diggy po pap sappa happa doodud boodud

WARNING
If you don’t get silly over your dogs and your kids, you won’t find this even mildly interesting.
The title of this post is the name my daughter, (at age 4) gave our dog Belle.  Other names, she went by where:  Bikkie, Crapper Treek Belle, Boop Diggy, and Dog Bags.  My husband and I could never remember how to say that [...]

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What??

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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