Northview Diary

While running errands earlier today , we passed an Amish barnyard, where normally one would find several heifers and a young bull grazing...

Afforded Becky and me a few minutes of nearly dangerous laughter yesterday. I normally pretty much wage war on chipmunks. They get in th...

Do click these photos for a better look  On the way home from the farm show yesterday we stopped at a favorite pond that lies just alon...

Actually there were two of them. The boss saw them from the big windows. Peekaboo The first shots are taken from those windows. S...

Becky called me to see this wild turkey hen right on the lawn behind the house These ladies went NUTS! Get off our lawn, you ...

Trying to get a sunrise for Sunday Stills. ...alas, they have been cancelled this week along with the closing of the canal. Much more rai...

Our good friend Teri , llama llover and source of our favorite chickens has made the news !

Wood plastic could a woodchuck chuc k if a woodchuck could chuck.....? I was sitting here at my trusty computer yesterday when I heard a w...

Heavy and sweet , the scent of wild grapes and black locust lies on the valley like a mantle. Chores are done, everyone else is off to work,...

This is the time of year for firsts . Yesterday was no exception. First herps. Other folks have seen snakes and frogs and all sorts of cool...

Or was it a pekan ? Anyhow she met one on the bridge between the house and barn yesterday when we were walking over to milk. She gasped, it...

Things are kinda, sorta, back to normal after a week when our youngest border collie, Nick, nearly died from eating an illicit chicken, and...

Well, all right , it is really the Northeast. But we have their rain . You will have to ask the kids about trying to catch heifer number 24...

And I like it that way. The guys are starting a fourth ag bag today. Wish it were the fifth...or sixth... Crops are sure short with the ter...

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Or what I saw from the sitting porch yesterday as we waited out another rainy day... On another note, Google is after me to upgrade how mu...

Sorry, I just can't resist them. ...however I am beginning to feel like I am in danger of becoming one....and getting awful tired of rai...

At Saratoga Race Course!

We tried off and on all day yesterday to get a decent photograph of this turkey hen. She kept sneaking in and out of the bushes playing peek...

A large percentage of farm work is repetitious a nd indeed often downright boring. Even a responsible job like milking is largely routine an...