Posted in Farm Life on Mar 30th, 2007
This is the guy. He is a strange and kooky cat. If I try to read while in bed, he likes to lay on my chest between me and the book. He is fixed but he likes to torment our two female cats. He attacks them and chases them around the house. He likes to [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Mar 23rd, 2007
My wife found Sassy when she was a wild kitten. Sassy had accidentally gone inside a friend’s house looking for food. My wife brought her home. Sassy has adjusted to living indoors quite well but she displays a few wild tendencies.
Posted in Farm Life on Nov 23rd, 2006
I took this picture for my brother-in-law. For many years he and his brother would go hunting over the Thanksgiving holidays. Now that they are much older they do not go out as much. In fact my brother-in-law will be with my sister and our parents for Thanksgiving.
Posted in Farm Life on Oct 31st, 2006
My son and I take out horses in the evening. I have tried to encourage him to try and establish a relationship with the horses he is handling. I found that when you listen and respond to a horses needs, the horse is more willing to listen and follow your requests. If you ignore a [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Oct 22nd, 2006
Last week we were notified that the H2B Visa for Pedro was finally approved. We really liked Pedro and his brother-in-law, Fernando. Over a period of about a year, Pedro showed us that he was both a good man and a good worker. He had the highest wage rate on our farm. His brother-in-law did [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Aug 13th, 2006
A couple of years ago I decided to fix the the mud problem at our gates with gravel. I chose to dig out about eight inches of dirt and replace it with gravel. I dumped the dirt in a pile about twenty feet from the gate and left it as a future project to fill [...]
Posted in Farm Life, Legacy Farm Ltd. on Nov 7th, 2005
Ohio’s Trees Introduction Although Fall does not end for another month the beauty of Fall is quietly ending. For the last two weeks the leaves of our maple trees were a beautiful shade of yellow and the leaves on the red oaks were a brillant shade of red. We have woken to a few frosts [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Oct 20th, 2005
My son helps me take horses out in the evening. Since the flies have died off we turn the horses out any time after they have eaten but it generally is around six o’clock. My plan is turn out horses before I start preparing dinner. This conflicts with my son’s schedule of playing a video [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Aug 13th, 2004
Last night we had a horse get loose. My niece and her friend came running up the stairs at 9 pm to tell us a lady had driven up and said a horse was loose on the road. I thanked the lady and then proceeded to walk across the paddocks to the far field. I [...]
Posted in Farm Life on Aug 3rd, 2004
I was working on a new video yesterday and things were not going smoothly. To top it off Sassy had chased a mouse upstairs and was now chasing it around the room. She would catch it, let it go, bat it once or twice until it ran off, and then chase it. When you live on [...]
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