Something’s eating our chickens. Yesterday I noticed our flock of Rhode Island Reds seemed a little thin. It dawned on me that one of our two roosters was nowhere to be seen. Then, after visiting with the hens out in the orchard–just sitting on an overturned bucket and watching them scratch in the turf–I returned […]
As long as it’s going to be winter again, might as well see how the new tractor performs. The first test was moving a hay bale down the driveway to the winter pasture. With the temperature around 20 degrees, the diesel engine was a little slow to start. Thankfully, the glow plug that pre-warms the […]
It finally happened. We bought a tractor. This is a 28-hp Mahindra, a four-wheel-drive diesel. One of the “compact” models so popular these days, it comes with a front-end loader and a 60-inch mower deck. As you can see, it’s easy enough to operate that our 14-year-old daughter can drive it around the property. She […]
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