Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Spring break by the numbers
What I did over spring vacation by Chris Kelley: Put in 30 cubic yards of mulch… Planted 3 peach trees, 3 pear trees, 3 (more) blueberry bushes, 1 (more) apple tree and a fig tree… Planted 6 hop rhizomes and installed a pole and lines for them to climb: Built and painted 4 bee hive…
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The iPad after the first 24 hours
The bloom is not off the rose. In fact, I may be spending a lot more than I had thought on vases simply because the rose is so damn cool! OK, enough metaphors. After picking up the iPad yesterday from a Best Buy in Clarksville, Indiana it has been in nearly constant use. By me…
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Weekends
Lot’s going on as we transition into spring (finally!). DeAnna and I got the horses out for the first ride of the new year on Friday. I only almost got killed twice, her just once. Will be a few more rides before they get the hang of it again. Kendall played in her third club…
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Our Garden, 2010 edition
The snow falling last week and melting this week has me in the mood for Spring to be here. NOW. Since I don’t have control over the weather, I though I would focus on what I can control and that is planning for this year’s garden. A few things will be different this year from…
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My newest shootin' iron
Made a trade yesterday to pick up my newest shootin’ iron: A stainless steel Ruger Vaquero (the original ones that can shoot ’em as hot as you can make ’em) in 357 Magnum. The plan is to pickup a cheapy 12 gauge side by side shotgun, a nice lever action (Henry) in the same caliber,…
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Seeking the origin of my favorite breakfast meat
No, it’s not Bacon (that’s second). It’s Goetta. Growing up in Northern Kentucky / Greater Cincinnati I can remember almost every breakfast we had with Goetta. And its not because it was a special treat only rolled out at Christmas or New Years. We ate Goetta a lot. Its because its sooo good. All throughout…
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Which way is up?
Been rather quiet again here lately. Not sure if I am loosing interest in blogging or it is loosing interest in me. One standard excuse for letting your blog go to weeds is that you’ve been to busy with other things. The last half of the year, that was certainly true. I was coaching 2…
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Teach your children well
Long break since last post, but since I am on vacation for the next few days I thought I would hammer this one out since its been rattling around in my head for the last few days. I may be (really) late to the party, but I am starting to fully understand the duty all…
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Getting closer to my food
I’ve been on a journey for the last few years. It’s not a journey that I expressly chose to start out on; it’s one that I just sort of fell into: a journey to get closer to what I and my family eat. It started many years ago, before we moved out to our farm,…