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Turkey Vulture in a field

Posted in Farm Life on Apr 20th, 2012

He is trying to decide if he should fly away or keep eating the dead possum.

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Love is buying your wife a Beretta M9 for Christmas

Posted in Farm Life on Jan 17th, 2012

Since Erin Burnett had a story last night on buying guns as Christmas presents I must fess up. I bought my wife a hand gun for Christmas. I told her my Christmas present idea a few days before Thanksgiving. My wife was enthusiastic. My son just rolled his eyes. My wife started the process by [...]

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My New Car, 2009 Subaru Forester

Posted in Farm Life on May 20th, 2011

Here is my newest toy, a 2009 Subaru Forester. The car in the background is my 2000 Subaru Forester. It has 195,000 miles on it but still runs nice. My wife has been bugging me to give my old Forester to my son. I had been saving up for a new car but I only [...]

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Roku to the rescue!

Posted in Farm Life on Aug 29th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago Amazon offered a very good price, $20 off, on the Roku HD Player. Since I live on a farm and our house is more than a quarter of a mile off the road, my options are limited. We have DSL but it is relatively slow and occasionally erratic. Recently our [...]

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O’Bannon Creek

Posted in Farm Life on Jun 6th, 2009

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Give me some kind of sign.

Posted in Farm Life on May 23rd, 2009

Blogger Alert! Ann Althouse is in the neighborhood.   I pass the sign in the picture below when I go the back way to the grocery store. I don’t know why the sign has always fascinated me. Maybe its because it reminds me of a short friend of mine. O’Bannon Creek flows in front of [...]

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My Latest Toy, A Weather Station

Posted in Farm Life on Jun 15th, 2008

Every couple of months at work we have a “give away”. Products that have been damaged in shipment or have been returned as non-functional are given away to the employees. Either the employees take them away or the garbage man will. We set up a lottery system to minimize personal conflicts when selecting items. It [...]

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Blizzard 2008

Posted in Farm Life on Mar 8th, 2008

This winter has been one of the coldest and wettest in recent memory. That was true before the latest storm to hit us. Yesterday we were hit with a blizzard that had the weather men and women thumbing through the record books. They are comparing this storm with a blizzard in the 1960′s. We are [...]

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Seeing coyotes for the first time

Posted in Farm Life on Feb 25th, 2008

Several years ago a neighbor said one of her horses had been attacked by a pack of coyotes. We were concerned since we had young horses. Coyotes do not normally hunt in packs. We looked and looked but we never saw the coyotes. Occasionally we would hear them at night. They have a distinctive sound [...]

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Anybody for catfish?

Posted in Farm Life on Aug 7th, 2007

This is catfish caught at our lake. The picture was taken by a relative. If I had seen this monster we would have had catfish for dinner.

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