Lost In Thoughts
The good times are ending. Our Amazon Music trial is over next Thursday. The kids have listened to myriad show tunes and I've played Tomorrow The Green Grass on an endless loop while feeding the calves. After this we're facing a dilemma of renew or not. Definitely, as another song the kids play often, a... Continue Reading →
This morning these two ladies began their sixty day vacation. We call this the dry period, and they will not be milked until after they calve. In the meantime, they will receive extra pampering. We will move them to a smaller group when they are a week or so from calving. This will allow us... Continue Reading →
Over the weekend I was catching up on episodes of The Walking Dead when a question on the show stuck out to me. Do you know what you're working for? One character, in the last hours of life after being bitten by a zombie, asked this to another. We don't need to be in a... Continue Reading →
We were definitely excited for the Solar Eclipse Monday because we were in the totality and would get the full experience. While there was a lot said about how the animals would react, I feel like our cows were completely ready. Here's a short clip of some calves after the sky darkened and about five... Continue Reading →
We didn't have cellphones growing up, but perhaps we had something that worked better. We had had CB radios. Citizen Band radios weren't just for truck drivers. We had them in all of our houses and on the tractors so we could call each other as needed. One of the coolest things about a CB... Continue Reading →
"The average Tennessee farmer gets up in the morning by the alarm of an Illinois clock (Big Ben), buttons his Chicago suspenders to Detroit overalls, washes his face with Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania pan. Sits down to a Grand Rapids table and eats Chicago meat, Indiana hominy, fried in Kansas lard on a Saint... Continue Reading →
I'd complain about the seemingly everyday rain, but then I'd have to forget about last fall's extreme drought. Planting season was tough around the weather for us. We worked this bottom up twice with nary a weed in sight when we planted the corn. The regular rain was good for it and the weeds that... Continue Reading →
How much do you remember about kindergarten? My teacher and learning the alphabet come to mind. Then there was bringing a Star Wars figure to school everyday and building Lego space ships for them with my best friend. One thing I remember vividly was the water fountain outside our room. This fountain was old and... Continue Reading →
