Archive for October, 2005
October 31, 2005 – Graveside at Halloween
Note: Today’s post deals somewhat graphically with death and burial of animal remains. If that makes you uncomfortable, you may want to skip reading this post.
Today didn’t go as planned. I didn’t envision I’d be outside after dark on a chilly Halloween evening beside a shallow grave, watching the steam rise up from ...Read more.
October 30, 2005 – Sheep Gone
Today many small events overlapped. Our friend and favorite Guiness Book of Record holder and one of the, if not THE, nation’s top amaranth curator stopped by to harvest the seed increase we grew out for him. The girl’s piano teacher and her husband stopped by to look at our corn stove. ...Read more.
October 29, 2005 – Maizie It Is
The pup has been named Maizie. Linda noticed a striking resemblance to “Nipper” the dog in the RCA logo. It’s not a perfect match, but definitely similar.
Old RCA Logo featuring “Nipper”
High Hopes New Puppy “Maizie”
October 28, 2005 – Green Machines
Our neighbor has finished up all his harvesting and brought some equipment over to store in our shed. Here’s Marty getting a ride in the tractor.
Today my Nikon digital camera went on the fritz. I bought the first one new and it had this problem, so I bought the same model used off ebay and ...Read more.
October 27, 2005 – Lad from Liverpool
It’s not often that one of the Beatles stops in Iowa to play a song or two, but tonight Paul McCartney was in town and we brought the girls. It must be hard to select just 2 1/2 hours of songs from the Beatles/Wings library. A good time was had by all. ...Read more.
October 26, 2005 – Corn Crib Project
Now that the steel has arrived, I am beginning work on the corn crib. This fall, I’m going to put steel siding on about half the building and do the rest next year. I built some racks inside one section of the crib to store lumber and need to keep the water and ...Read more.
October 25, 2005 – New Puppy for the Farm
After our experience with Blue and the confidence Emma has gained in dog training, we now have a new puppy. Her name was Missy, but nobody really cares for that name, so we are thinking of a new name. We were leaning towards Maizzie, but when Martin says that it comes out like ...Read more.
October 24, 2005 – An Afternoon Project
Today’s project was one of those “good enough” projects. I’ve adopted Joel Salatin’s mantra of making things cheap and just good enough, no matter what it looks like. This was an old cattle chute I put a new tire on and am converting to a mulch hauler (while retaining its ability to still act as ...Read more.
October 23, 2005 – Who needs Gameboys?
I’m happy to report there are not any gameboys, Xboxes, or other video contraptions at high hopes. There are, however, plenty of other things for creative minds to use. A rake and leaves, for example.
Something is lurking deep within the pile.
All tucked for bed!
October 22, 2005 – Garlic In
Today we got the garlic in (but not mulched). It does so much better planted late fall than spring. We planted five different varieties: California Early White, California Late White, Music, Chesnok Red, and Siberian. We planted a bit more than last year – last year we had about 200 ft ...Read more.
October 21, 2005 – RoundTuit Work
Today was a day of “RoundTuit” work. Stuff that needs to get done, but never bubbles up to the top of the list. One of today’s tasks was taking a flat wheel off an old cattle chute (last fall we dragged it out of the corn crib to make way for the basketball court, flat ...Read more.
October 20, 2005 – Officer Bunn a.k.a Barney Fife?
Today’s weekly paper from a neighboring town had this photo on the front page concerning the town’s lone officer and new police cruiser:
Here’s the write up from the State Center Enterprise Record.
“According to Bunn, a call had gone out on the radio to assist an immobile vehicle somewhere in the vicinity. Approaching the intersection of ...Read more.
October 19, 2005 – Goodbye to Blue
After a period of decision-making and talking to animal rescue league and our vet, we decided to put Blue down. He had bitten Martin in the face, bitten a neighbor who fed the pets when we were out of town a few weeks ago and nipped at Martin again after we brought chickens back ...Read more.
October 18, 2005 – Corn in the Shed
Today, we are ready for winter. Our wagons are full of corn and sitting safe and sound in the shed. The corn heats our house in the winter and especially this year, it is like money in the bank. I was concerned about the tires on the gravity wagon. Even though ...Read more.
