Category Archives: Farming

Baling hay and eggs

Posted on September 10, 2013 by farm2011

I’m not sure how hot it actually got today or if we broke any records, but I do know one thing – if you had hay down, it was going to dry very fast! So tonight after work, Daryl got … Continue reading →

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Fall is just around the corner

Posted on September 7, 2013 by farm2011

I hate to admit it, but I’m thinking that fall is closer than I was realizing it to be.  You can feel it in the air. I know that today was anything but a nice cool fall day, but the … Continue reading →

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Catching up

Posted on August 18, 2013 by farm2011

We were all pretty tired on Sunday, so in the morning we really didn’t get too excited about anything. But around 10:00 we thought that we better get something done. Or at least look like we were doing something! Daryl’s … Continue reading →

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Caught in the act

Posted on August 15, 2013 by farm2011

Usually when I run home for dinner, I catch the peacocks hanging out on our front porch. But today, this is what I found. Lately I was wondering why my flowers looked so tough and … literally gone. Yea, I … Continue reading →

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Million Dollar Rain

Posted on August 5, 2013 by farm2011

When you get a rain in July or August, a lot of farmers say that it’s a ‘million dollar rain’. With the extremely wet spring that we’ve had, we also haven’t had much rain after the crops started to grow, … Continue reading →

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The garden

Posted on July 29, 2013 by farm2011

I know that I probably shouldn’t do it, but I think I’m going to give up on the garden. It’s not just bad… it’s really bad! At first I was trying to weigh out my options, should I pull the … Continue reading →

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Wednesday is Mowing Day

Posted on July 17, 2013 by farm2011

I checked my new schedule before I headed home today from work to make sure that I try to at least somewhat stay on track. I was hoping that Wednesday was just lay on the couch day… but not so … Continue reading →

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Roots

Posted on July 10, 2013 by farm2011

Did you ever have a situation when someone tells you something and then you kind of store it for awhile and then low and behold you bring it out of your brain storage? Well that’s what happened to me today. … Continue reading →

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Still out picking rock

Posted on July 8, 2013 by farm2011

It’s July 8th and some people we heard are still planting corn. Can you believe it? Well, Daryl was able to get all our crops in, but we are still picking rock. We got around 6/10 of rain during the … Continue reading →

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Feast or Famine

Posted on July 7, 2013 by farm2011

So you probably won’t ever guess what I did tonight. I ended up watering the garden. Can you believe it? We went from having such a mud pile, to now having the plants (what actually are planted in the garden) … Continue reading →

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