Well, after much debate… and consideration… We’ve purchased a new hired hand… Meet the new Yamaha Rhino side by side. A little less expensive than the Honda, and hopefully, just as tough! It’ll get a workout around here, so I’m hoping it’s built to take what the ranch can dish out!
Hugelkultur Eins
I’ve finally started it… the laying out of my small hugelkultur beds. Hugelkultur, if you recall from this previous post, is where you create a berm, the base of which consists of tree stumps and limbs. Other natural litter is placed on and around it, much like lasagna gardening. The final layer of dirt becomes…
Spring Rain
Thunderhead. I’ve loved that name ever since I read the sequel to My Friend Flicka. This storm brought a little rain and hail, not enough to hurt anything here… and tomorrow I may be brave enough to set out my tomato plants… and then I’ll have to worry about them getting beat to a pulp!…
Weekend Started
Busy day! I was a tad bit early to the show… so I took some time for wildflower photography… Then I helped begin the AI process… which consists of a shot of Lutalyse, which is a prostaglandin. It synchronizes estrus, in other words, all our heifers should come into heat in the next few days……
Windssssday Gusts
The topic of the past two days just HAS to be the wind! It’d be so much nicer if the wind just wouldn’t come after having all this great rain and moisture, because it just sucks it right back out of the ground! Plus, we’ve had it much more severe than usual… 74 mph is…
Wordless Wednesday – “Swallow Moon”
Cliff swallows settle on a power line under the moon.
All In All
That hot tub I haven’t bought yet? I sure could use it now! I spent the morning spray painting my garden shed and garage, at least as far as I could get on a ladder! So there’s the up and down, the weight of the backpack of paint (only 8#, but still…) and the reaching…
Make My Own
Small fact. Too much rain is a direct link to a rancher spending too much money! See… it works like this. Rain falls in abundance… rancher can’t work in fields or haul out supplies to fix fence or clean muddy ditches or travel anywhere… EXCEPT on highways. Rancher decides to take day off and use…
Nowood International Airport
Good grief, Gertrude! It’s raining STILL! We haven’t done this much rain in a while! .73″ yesterday and .64″ so far tonight. It’s continuing to rain, and it has taken all day to get the .64″, which was MUCH different than yesterday’s downpour. The neighbors have high water, and ours sounded loud when I went…
Rain!
.73″ of rain poured out of the sky today… most of it in about a half an hour! It was interesting there for a bit, with lightning popping and thunder rolling. My dogs just KNEW a strike was headed for them, so anywhere within 3′ of a human was BOUND to be safer, right? They’re…
Amazing Piece
Seems like I need to start these entries a little earlier… I’ve been falling asleep and not feeling like waking up enough to write! That’s typical springtime… the rush is on to clean, garden, farm, ride, move cattle, irrigate and plant. Where we were in snow just a few weeks ago, the grass has now…