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 [...]
August 2026
The Cancelled Eleventh Plague
I think there may have been an 11th plague that was going to be called down on Egypt, but Moses asked God to skip it. That plague was an attack by wasps and hornets. Locusts was a plague? Please. Wasps and hornets would rate as one of the highest plagues ever. Only the deaths of the first born would top it. I remember wasps and hornets as a kid in Southwest Missouri. I got nailed a number of times on the farm, and when we moved to town I was mowing someone's lawn, which resulted in me disturbing a yellowjacket [...]
April 2026
OCO – Obsessive Compulsive Order
I have a mental... um... thing that I basically inherited. I am not implicating any one else to suggest my condition is inherited, but there is someone with pretty much my same genes, and she also has this affliction. I am not certifiable. I'm not like Adrian Monk (look it up... he's funny). I just have a somewhat irritated internal response when things aren't right. Most of them are stupid. Let's look at an example. In general, when we go to the garage/basement, we turn the stair lights on upstairs, turn them off downstairs, and then do the reverse when [...]
March 2026
If you give a mouse some broccoli…
I have spent years figuring out how to effectively and repeatedly start vegetables from seeds. I am no expert... yet... but, I have made great strides. I even have some artichokes growing in the garage on the new shelves I installed with the new grow lights that I installed. I am hoping to get at least a couple of artichokes this year. That, unfortunately, is not the topic of this rant. We had horrible luck with brassicas last year. In fact, I don't believe we harvested a single brassica that we planted. The bugs were horrendous. I guess the only [...]