Side-by-Side's Transmission is TOAST!
It was hot but mostly overcast today with the same forecast for the next few days. The animals are all doing quite well with nothing significant to report (NSTR). I finished mowing the saplings on the
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Colonel's Blog
322 posts on farm life, food freedom and raising real food in the Missouri Ozarks. Fighter-pilot habits applied to livestock, with the wins and the failures both written down.
Positive Light on mRNA!
It was hot and muggy today but tomorrow starts the heat advisories for temps near 100 and heat indices nearing 110. The animals are all doing really well today. We decided to go a different route with
Bottle Lamb Update
It was a warm humid day today. The animals are doing very well! The cow and her new calf that were separated from the herd decided to rejoin the herd today. We tried the other day, unsuccessfully, to
Chicken Update!
I hope you have had a wonderful weekend! We started the day today with a 30 minute rain shower! Then it got hot, about 90, but we were so happy to get the rain that we didn’t even complain. It rained
Murderous Raccoon!
The day started with a slow steady rain and finished warm and sunny. The grass is growing like crazy! The animals are not all well today. We went down to the chicken tractor to feed the beef chickens
Power's Back!
It was a hot one again today, heat advisory for index of 106. The humidity was way up there! The electricity came back on around 0730 this morning. About 40 hours without power is special on a farm! W
No Electricity!
Apologies for the lack of blog posts. We haven't had electricity for over 24 hours and are busy trying to keep everything going! Regular updates as soon as we get power. Cheers! Psycho
MGM, We Are Not!
It was warm today at the market, but there was a breeze so it wasn’t that bad under the tent in the shade. We had a good market day and chatted with lots of cool folks. We sold 15 chickens! Not going
Jersey-vs-Holstein
The fast-jet pic today is the Mighty-Mighty F-15E belonging to the 492d Fighter Squadron, flying fast and low in Wales this week. We started the day with about an inch of rain during our morning coffe
Effort Justification
We had another heat advisory because the heat index was 106. Thankfully, it rained overnight and again this morning. We may even get more rain tonight. The top pic is the green grass as it recovers fr
Lab-to-Table
We’re under a heat advisory this afternoon for heat index between 105-110. We might get some rain tonight, starting a trend of rain for the next couple of days. We sure hope so. Well…yesterday was my
Happiness=Like What We Have?
The weather over the past few days has been mild and humid. We had another half inch of rain the other day giving us a total of 2 inches in the past week. The grass is loving it! The animals are doing