Archive for May, 2006
May 31, 2006 – Roofing Begins
Work on the reroof began in earnest today.
The scaffolding was set up yesterday. It’s amazing how quickly it goes up and how it fits so well. Today the west side was torn off (layers of asphalt and cedar shakes), new sheeting put down, and new shingles put up (along with old dormer stripped and ...Read more.
May 30, 2006 – Kids and Summer
Yesterday we went fishing for a spell.
Everybody’s concentrating on something – a book or bobber.
Martin had the hot hand and caught the most fish!
This evening was softball for the girls. Between them, they accounted for 3 of the team’s 4 runs
Emma at bat.
Claire on deck.
May 29, 2006 – Memorial Day 2006
Today we made our annual pilgrimage to the township cemetery two miles down the road.
We don’t actually know anyone buried there, but it seems appropriate to go there on this day. We usually go look at the gravestones and try to imagine what life must have been like in their time. There are many more ...Read more.
May 28, 2006 – Cleanup Begins
We spent a bit of time cleaning up this afternoon. We put the tractor to good use. The limb that fell on the machine shed was to big for me to budge, so… loader tractor to the rescue.
A chain, a tractor, no problem. We loaded a hay wagon with branches from the ...Read more.
May 27, 2006 – “Beautiful Weekend?”
The weatherman has been promising a great Memorial Day weekend, hot and maybe a bit breezy. Last night a small chance of late afternoon thunderstorms was added – but a small chance. Evidently the storm at 5 am that woke us up was 12 hours late (or early)!
This afternoon damaging winds blew through, ...Read more.
May 26, 2006 – Garden and Building
Today was one of those rare days that more “farming” got done than planned. Spent the morning loading up a load for the dump and getting supplies in town and in the afternoon started getting ready to reroof the back side of the old machine shed. First task was to nail 2×4s across ...Read more.
May 26, 2006 – Photo Friday “Home”
This week’s Photo Friday Contest theme is “Home.” Here is my entry.
This is a nice juxtaposition of the ruins of a Spanish church and native kiva. This is at Pecos National Monument in Northern New Mexico.
May 25, 2006 – Thingamajig Thursday #25
Here’s this week’s “Thingamajig Thursday” entry. Also check out last week’s answer.
As always, put your guess in a comment below.
The answer is…
A steel fence post driver (armstrong model).
May 24, 2006 – “Moma” Robin
Yesterday I wrote about the abundant living and dead fledglings – today I caught Martin playing moma robin!
If you look closely, you may be able to see the worm he found for the robin dangling above the bird’s mouth. After he fed it 3-4 worms, we put the bird in the compost bin so it ...Read more.
May 23, 2006 – Baby Bird Season
This is the season for baby birds. Here’s a Mourning Dove nest nestled in some pine branches.
There must be many nests in our trees if the broken eggs and dead fledglings on the ground are any indication. I think some are blown out of the nest and some must be caught ...Read more.
May 22, 2006 – No Flame Decals on that Tractor!
Today, the tractor was ready to be picked up at the John Deere Dealer after they fixed the problem that filled the crankcase with gasoline. They didn’t have the ticket written up, so they let me drive it home without paying for it (yet).
They drove it out of the shop and noticed some gasoline ...Read more.
May 21, 2006 – Travel Bug
Last summer Emma took a GPS class and part of the class was to hide a “travel bug” with instructions and an ID tag. For her travel bug, she appropriately chose a VW Bug. She hid the bug, logged onto the geo caching web site and left the coordinates along with instructions where ...Read more.
May 20, 2006 – Saturday on the Farm
It’s another keeper of a day. Lots of little things today. Planted a dozen peppers, spent half the morning in town getting lumber and running errands. Built a waterproof top for the gravity wagon that is storing chicken feed. We had some makeshift tarps over it before and a few leaks ...Read more.
May 19, 2006 – Cirque du Soleil
Tonight Linda and I had an escape, we went to see the Cirque du Soleil road show, Delerium in Des Moines. It’s hard to describe the show – merging acrobatics, dance, broadway, art, lights, all addressing the limits of human potential. But if you went to see it, you’d probably have a different ...Read more.
