Lost In Thoughts
I jinxed us. I'm sure of it. After the fire, I never bought another rain coat. In July we had several rains and the two dollar poncho I picked up wasn't going to hold up another day. So I went and got a nice rain coat. And then it stopped raining. Sort of like the... Continue Reading →
Perhaps there's no better day than Labor Day to show how farming is a labor of love. While many are enjoying a three day weekend, farmers have not stopped doing their chores. There are still calves needing breakfast. Dairy cows expect to be milked and eat hay. And there might still be hay to bale.... Continue Reading →
We had a hard time convincing a heifer earlier this week to follow us to another field. While we were moving her I thought about another particular animal who really had her own idea about where she was going to go! Part I Ackbar, The Suspicious Heifer See the heifer on the right? I'm naming... Continue Reading →
Life is a lot about routines; learning new ones and remembering old ones. We are two weeks into the school year at our house. Getting everyone up and out the door isn't new, but this year we have two of the kids starting new schools to change things up for us. The cows are learning,... Continue Reading →
After five long months of cleaning up after the fire and making repairs, we are milking cows again. Saturday was the first pickup of milk from our farm. A dairy farmer in a nearby town decided to retire and we were able to pick out some of his cows, and we now have a few... Continue Reading →
No summer could ever be summer without ice cream. The cure for a smoldering hot summer day? Ice cream. How to ignore that blistering sunburn you just realized you got? Ice cream. How to stop your kid from crying about a skinned knee? The answer, of course, is ice cream. This summer I took a... Continue Reading →
If you give a dairy farmer some ice cream... He'll probably think about milking cows. And if he thinks about milking cows then he'll probably think about feeding cows. If he thinks about feeding cows then he'll probably think about harvesting. Harvesting makes him think about tractors. When he's riding his tractor he might see... Continue Reading →
No, that isn't the title of my new book. Today while I was baling hay I managed to video two different whirlwinds that twirled through the hay field. The windrows of hay my uncle had just finished raking swirled high in the air and some were carried over into a corn field. I can't imagine... Continue Reading →
Dudley and Destiny were married a few Saturdays ago. This was no ordinary wedding. Dudley is a steer and Destiny is a heifer. No great romance happened in one day, so let me start at the beginning. A beef farmer had the misfortune of having one of his steers get a leg caught in some... Continue Reading →
With National Donut Day coming up tomorrow I thought this would be a great Throwback Thursday post! Time To Fetch The Cows By four a.m. each morning I am driving out to the pasture making sure all the cows have come in to be milked. Yes, I did say four a.m.! Today I was thinking... Continue Reading →
Farmer Bright 