It is all most 4 a.m. and I am still awake and plugging away on my computer. I have been having a bought of sleeplessness this past week for some unknown reason. Even though it is Saturday night and most people wouldn’t think of it being too big of a deal since most people are able to sleep in on their Sunday mornings. We, the farmers of the world, on the other hand have to get up with the chickens [...]
I have the perfect gift to give some one like my late-mother for Mother’s Day or any other gift giving holiday would be good as well. I’ve never seen one before, although I’ve heard the term “chains rain” before. But as I was mindlessly surfing the net earlier this evening I was looking at some rain barrels that would come in handy around here, when I came across a site that sells the most wonderful looking rain chains. My mother [...]
Tonight is a night that I look forward to all year long, each and every year. At 2:00 a.m. we are all supposed to set our clocks forward one hour and to let Daylight Savings Time begin for the year 2011. Life is so much better when it stays lighter out for longer periods of time. Right in the middle of summer is actually stays light until after 9:00 p.m., which is so awesome. Since I spend so much of [...]
Every now and then I’ll get an email from my cousin, Larry, who I used to be so close to while growing up, but other than an occassional email I don’t hear much from him or any other member of that part of the family. Their house was just a few blocks up from us, we were close in age and had a lot in common with each other back then so we became pretty darned close there for most of [...]
In many ways we have been extremely lucky this winter with the small amount of snow that we have had to deal with last week. Other than that one time we haven’t had squat, which has made this winter a much easier one to get a handle on since I haven’t had to be out and about getting about the business around here at the farm under control when we get snow. Other places haven’t been all that lucky and [...]