I had a bit of excitement at the shop today, though thankfully it all ended well ( Read more... )

     Once again, things have been so busy that there just hasn't been a lot of time to update my journal.  One of the biggest problems is that the connection from the farmhouse is flakey at the best of times, and by the time I get home at "sometime after midnight" I'm really not in the mood to deal with that.  So my updates are often left until ( Read more... )

     One of my favourite things about living out here on the farm is the abundance of wildlife around us.  We see a lot of deer, the occasional fox, coyotes, a badger now and then, but today was the first time I saw a moose - up close.

I was getting water for the horses from the frost-proof faucet on the east side of the house when I heard a * ( Read more... )

     Yesterday was not a Happy Fun Day.

I had to make a trip up to Swift Current to take advantage of a sale at Peavey Mart, and finish some last-minute Christmas Shopping (including finding a decent-sized turkey, since our local Co-op didn't have anything ideal.)  The item I was after at Peavey Mart was an Industrial Air air compressor; a big ( Read more... )

      We no longer have a dog here at the farm.  A dog needs lots of love and attention, and he wasn't getting anywhere near as much as he needed.  This was the reason I was reluctant to get the Kidling a dog in the first place, but I thought that perhaps he was finally mature enough to take care of a dog.  It became pretty evident that just like ( Read more... )

Or maybe it was a Foxy Guy...  Hard to tell with a Fox...

In either case, early this morning I was working in the shop, trying to get it more cleaned up and organized.  I had the large door open as I was going through the Briggs & Stratton boxes, checking the inventory and tossing the empty boxes out to be recycled.  It was at this time ( Read more... )

I dragged the kidling out of bed around 9am this morning (I'd been up since 6am) and he wanted to know "What's the special occasion?" for getting him up so early.  "There's work to do!" I retorted, and made a mental note to spray him with the water-bottle tomorrow instead of being nice about it.  ;)

The main goal of the day's "work" was ( Read more... )

The temperature climbed to +27c today, though a pleasant breeze (as compared to a gale-force wind, which is the norm around here!) helped cool things off a little.  On a bright sunny day though, the UV index was pretty high and thus my arms are pretty badly sunburned.  ( Read more... )

Made it out to the farm without much trouble.  The Explorer does surprisingly well for fuel economy on the highway, much better than it does in the city.  I almost hit my first deer on the way out though - I was already past Shaunavon, only a few more minutes away from the farm, when a deer walked out right onto the road in front of me!

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