Northview Diary

Inside a duck blind At Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge A one-legged Ring-billed Gull  Eating road killed cheeseburger ...

Right now we are using two pastures although we will soon open a third. The girls go to the old cow pasture in the day time and the hei...

White-crowned sparrow At four o'clock this morning I heard a donkey bray . It was underneath the window and not too far away. The...

The girls went out to pasture yesterday ; not much grass, but they enjoyed what there was. Old Heather, Liz's retired show Jersey, le...

Finally finished the Farm Side, which is usually fun, but sometimes frantically frustrating.  Liz says it is hailing wherever it is tha...

Doing today? ***Update Injector and number one piston from the old 930 Case. She is getting yet another do over. Alan says she has 18,0...

Yesterday I was complaining about the lousy "yellow lilac bush" I bought at Wally World ten years ago or so. The darned thing took...

Pink slime they call it. What a tempest in a tea pot, (although not for the people who lost their jobs or the estimated million and a half ...

I'm sure that in the winter a clothes drier's a fine thing...just a rumbly, numbly, grumbly and your laundry's nice and warm....

Somebody landed here from a Google search for " reason for a hairy butt " I wonder what they thought when they found the ba...

Finished the Farm Side  early and sent it to the esteemed editor. The NASCO catalog provided  subject matter this week. (Why didn't I ...

OMG, there's a construction worker playing xbox in my dining room...what to do, what to do.... at least with all that protective colorin...

Not much going on ...the boss smashed his finger between two oak logs yesterday so he is in a world of hurt. In typical farmer style he so...

Northstar, a name the calf graduate, all grown up Is still hanging around biting everybody right ...well you know where. Even though we ar...

The boss does a lot of our shopping ...I am kind of a hermit, and he likes to shop...and yesterday he ran up to an area store to get a s...

A recent comment reminded me of a long ago incident that etched itself quite solidly in my memory. Before the boss and I were married I...

The bicarb and salt tire.....forlorn and empty Still nothing big going on, which I guess is good. Worked on 1099s yesterday, no big deal fo...

T his story is probably a little off-topic for a dairy farm blog, but we grew up Catholic and Kateri was born just a little bit down the ...