With less frequent rains and hot weather, we’re on the upswing

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I'll swear we were having so much rain I felt like my toes were growing webs! Yuck. And rain makes tons of mosquitoes appear too. But lately, we have had a little rain, but...

Sorry to be so late blogging!

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We've been fighting against frost, which has been threatening nearly every day. We've been picking, husking corn, pulling in beans, and, lately, covering rare crops as we were under a frost advisory. Yesterday, our...

The good, the bad, and the ugly

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The good was that Will had gotten the clutch back in the tractor and David brought our neighbor's big tractor over to lift the motor and clutch back in our tractor. It was too...

Hey! Spring’s back

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After a week of back to back blizzards, the sun came out and the temperature climbed to 50 degrees today. It was SO nice. And today my son Bill and his wife,...

Weeds, weeds, and more weeds

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With hot weather plus rain every couple of days, our weeds are having a field day. We've been working hard to keep them under control. I've been running the smaller rototiller through the corn...