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Entries Tagged as 'winter'

Okay, That Didn’t Work

November 25th, 2013 · No Comments · farming

Here’s our Jersey heifer Emily looking a bit sheepish after she thwarted our efforts to move her off the upper pasture and out of a particularly harsh bit of winter weather. With temperatures supposed to drop into single digits overnight and a wind advisory predicting gusts up to 50 mph., we thought the permanent paddock […]

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News from Up North

November 24th, 2013 · No Comments · farming, News from Up North, rural life

Brrrrrrrrrrr. The news this week: winter seems to have arrived early. This is what the thermometer outside my office window looked like at 7:30 a.m. the other day and it’s even colder this morning. A wind advisory has been issued for today, with gusts expected up to 50 mph, plunging the wind chill into the […]

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Gimme Shelter

October 18th, 2013 · 2 Comments · farming

When you think of a classic farm, you probably picture a big, red barn. When we bought our farm property, we got a small building for tools and a goat shed, but no barn. Well, there had been a barn of some sort. But the previous owner had taken it apart with plans to rebuild […]

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