FarmerJ | August 26, 2009
Here’s the scoop ~ I really don’t like the rain. It started raining this morning long before the sun rose, and it didn’t stop until after noon. Well, what’s a girl to do when she hasn’t pottied since the night before? I can only hold it for so long, ya know? Well, thank goodness Aunt [...]
FarmerJ | August 25, 2009
Isn’t this a pretty flower? No, it’s not a Hibiscus ~ it’s better. It’s an Okra! How cool is that? Not only are we blessed with the food from our Okra plants, we are blessed with their beauty in the interim. It’s been fun and interesting to watch these plants grow over the course of [...]
FarmerJ | August 23, 2009
Nearly three weeks ago, the shop recovery program began. It’s much too early to say whether this is going to be a 12-Step Recovery Program, though. It had taken this long to get the go-ahead from the insurance company to start sifting through the ash and rubble, and for my Darling Husbie to spend more [...]
FarmerJ | August 19, 2009
If there’s one thing we try to do out here on the farmstead, it’s to respect and co-exist with the critters that share our land. With the exception of the snapping turtle crossing the front yard last summer, we’ve done pretty well at commingling with our critters ~ until this past weekend, that is. The [...]
FarmerJ | August 17, 2009
Boy, have I been remiss in keeping you current on our gardening adventures! My excuses? I have two of them, actually. One, because most nights I’ve been too exhausted to even formulate a coherent sentence. It’s been a choice between harvesting and preserving the many fruits of our labor, or blogging about it. There’s really [...]
FarmerJ | August 17, 2009
After a year and a half, the Prairie Farmstead finally has a mascot! It’s perfect ~ it’s a tractor with Farmer Dude, and it twirls and spins when the wind blows…which, in Nebraska, it’s easier to count the days it doesn’t blow. Our mascot arrived in a surprise package from Arizona ~ making it even [...]
FarmerJ | August 10, 2009
Keep those hay bales rollin’! It seems like forever ago since the first cut of alfalfa ~ so I thought I’d better give you an update…and let you know where I came in with my prediction on the number of rolls that massive cut produced. [I guess there's a reason why I never win those [...]
FarmerJ | August 8, 2009
Oh my word! I’m fully flabbergasted, completely confounded and sincerely stupefied by the fact that it’s August ~ and more than a week into it, no less! I knew it had been a while since I last posted, but I didn’t realize three weeks had gone by. Gracious! Unfortunately, my Monopoly money totals just keep [...]
