Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

playing with the neighbor's shed



fat & flappy



The fields are awash in fish fertilizer.

Stacked


Lucky 7 & 823F

cow cop

Sunday, November 23, 2008

bringing in the cows tonight


Frank heading off to work.

This is Frank without an itch.

This is Frank; he had an itch.


'Tis better than riches
To scratch when it itches.

:^)


My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton

historical footage

My bottle baby.


You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~Florence Nightingale

...but not the cattle.





Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. ~Bible

I eat the vegetables...





Vegetarians eat vegetables - I am a humanitarian. ~Unknown

...and sometimes she is no help.


I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay the moon to keep fat souls from sleep. ~Irene MacLeod

Scout helps me...


Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx

...and vegetables.


A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ~Gertrude Stein

I grow cattle...




All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. ~Alvar N. C. de Vaca

Saturday, November 22, 2008

I am a farmer.


Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. ~Thomas Jefferson