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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Jun 6th, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Posted in Farm Life on Apr 7th, 2007
Here is another installment of Cat Blogging Friday. Pearl is a cat my wife found as a kitten in the middle of the road. Not exactly the brightest cat I have ever known but it got the job done! Most of the time Pearl does not trust me and runs away to hide under the [...]
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