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Six Word Saturday
Perfect weather to harvest the crops.
Sunday Serenity
I am wishing for some Sunday Serenity today, but it’s not going to happen. The past week and a half has been busy on the farm, planting corn and soybeans. The weather has cooperated so everyone is working full-force to … Continue reading
Farmin’ Ain’t No Picnic (Part 4)
My brain is pretty well fried for various reasons so I went to my online thesaurus to describe Harvest 2012! Here goes: accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring to fruition,bring to maturity, call it a day, cap, carry off,close, conclude, consummate, crown, determine,develop, discharge, do, do thoroughly, effect,effectuate, elaborate, end, equip, execute, fill,finalize, finish, fulfill, furnish, get through, go thelimit, go through with, go whole hog, halt, makegood, make up, perfect, perform, put to bed,realize, refine, round off, round out, settle, sewup, supplement, terminate, ultimate, wind up,wrap up (Thank you Thesaurus.com) We finished late Wednesday evening and luckily this year … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, blog, Corn, farm life, Finished, harvest, John Deere Combine, soybeans, Thank, thankful
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Farmin’ Ain’t No Picnic (part 3)
It’s been exactly 3 weeks since my last “farm” post. Unfortunately, we have not made a lot of progress in those 3 weeks. In our little part of Ohio, we received a couple drenching rains that have left the fields … Continue reading
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Tagged after dark, agriculture, blog, Blogger, Corn, harvest, soybeans, weather, weather forecast, wet fields, writer
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Farmin’ Ain’t No Picnic…
I often think of farming as a complicated square dance. You have one main partner, but you have to dance with many others and you have to make the moves at just the right time or the dance falls … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Life
Tagged blog, Combine, cook, Corn, dry weather, fire, frost, grain, grain terminal, harvest, Midwest, Ohio, picnic, Rain, soybeans, square dance, winter wheat
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The City boy and the Country boy
It’s good to get outside of your circle of friends and meet new people. I think we all need to find out about life’s different perspectives now and then. The young man we met on our weekend Getaway … Continue reading
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Tagged a great life, agriculture, blog, chicken, city life, Corn, country life, different perspectives, farming, firefighter, hogs, Livestock, paramedic, soybeans, wheat, write
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Six Word Saturday
Harvest begins and I start cooking.
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Tagged agriculture, blog, Combine, cooking, farm, harvest, Massey Ferguson, soybeans, work, writing
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