Author Archives: Lanny
A Month? For Reals? No Way!
But it appears to be true! It has been a month since I last wrote a post, Huh, there isn’t even a crummy rough draft in the tool shed to throw at the blog. This must come to an end, but unless I find some accidental money and hire four extra people I doubt I … Continue reading
Wooly Onions
Some experiments succeed, some experiments fail. And others hang in this sort of “I’m not so sure” grey area. The experiment in question: Use wool to mulch overwinter onions. Why wool as a mulch? The wool that Dirt’s sheep produce is marginal at best. We also do not have the equipment at this time to … Continue reading
Propagating for Pleasure
Not all that gets propagate around here is for the dinner table and sustaining the body, sometimes it is just for sustaining the soul. I used to be a huge house plant person. Even my dormitory room at college was draped with vines and hanging pots. (Yes, it is true, I wasted my parent’s money … Continue reading
Lime Today For Tomorrow It Rains
Ow. I lifted a thousand pounds today. Not all at once! Don’t be crazy Dear Reader, I did it fifty pounds at a time. After having the sheep pasture drug out real nice, with spring approaching, and the rain a comin’ it was time to apply lime. Lime or calcium, sweetens acid soil, and yes … Continue reading
Early Winter Blog Blip
So perhaps you noticed a recent, recent being a relative term of course, big blip in my blogging, none in December, one in January and a handful in February. There is always a ton of reasons for most events but I would have to say that there was one particular reason my late fall, early winter season seemed to go … Continue reading
Sunday Not-Work Work
Oh my, what a day yesterday! I wanted to work on the neglected back yard a bit. It will soon be summer and the backyard and other purely ornamental areas will be in nearly irredeemable disarray. (Yes, for some places in the yard and house summer gets here in a flash, if I’m not careful.) So to … Continue reading
Saturday Work
We’ve begun to slowly chip away at the mess of down trees that this winter’s freak ice storm brought us. What a job, I’m thinkin’ that we have a lot of things on our to do list for the year that will be carried over to next year because of the unexpected work we were … Continue reading
Kai, Aksel and Ruby
So lambing hell week had a major offset. We had Kai, our oldest grandboy, Aksel, his brother, and Ruby, their sweet baby cousin girl, out over that weekend (this very last weekend hardly qualified as a weekend, Dirt worked for the school for both days, last Monday being a holiday on top of that, and … Continue reading
Tides A Turnin’
It was a tough week last week. The hard week started last Sunday. And the story in a second, but first a note… Sorry I left you with such a dismal post for so long, I will try to refrain from exposing my psychosis, well at least I won’t keep it up front for nearly … Continue reading
I Wanna be a Hermit When I Grow Up
I promised a picture of the new lamb today. He has been named Tim. Aksel christened him. And now a little wry humor, or a little humor gone a wry…. I used to be a rock solid extrovert. Undeniable. Off the charts. By everyone who even remotely knew me and even myself, though it was … Continue reading
