October 2026
Rockin’ It
I had a very fulfilling day yesterday (Saturday)! Friends of ours have decided after having a couple of years off from it, they are going to market garden. As it turns out, my Frontier tiller is a magnificent tool. In preparation for their garden for next year, I spent a large part of the day tilling their garden area, which totals a little over 12k square-feet. My tiller is about seven feet wide, and my John Deere purred contentedly the whole time. Yes, my Deere usually purrs that way, but when tilling in the Ozarks, there are usually hiccups. I [...]
New Pig!
We have spent the summer having to travel back and forth a lot to St. Louis. In fact, because of all this travel, we decided not to raise hogs after our last group went to the processor back in May. Even though we are gearing up for a new group of pigs that will be raised over the winter (hopefully the deer leave them some acorns), that anticipation has not relieved us of feeling like something is missing. The path taken over and over this summer to St. Louis goes right by an ornamental concrete business. The last time we [...]