Cleaning up the fenceline with fire

 

Our Fence lin consisted of a few mature trees

 

 

and lots of the prickly wood kind of branches

 

 

They'd been cutting and stacking

now it's time for the real clean-up

 

 

It gets so hot you have to wait before piling more on

 

 They are large piles

 

 

The fence-line looks a lot better already

2 earlier posts:

 

fence-line-improvement

 

a-thorn-issue

Sunday

 

 

 

coming back from church we drove by the Ospreys

 

 

they put up several nesting boxes

 

 

as soon as you stop the car they're off in the air

 

 

SHIP in the evening

Why does God allow pain and suffering

That is a hard question

and I don't remember clearly what was said.

 

I do know that God is always with us

"I will never leave you or forsake you"

but He speaks most clearly when we are in the desert

 

 

Moria is temporarily back from Israel

corn planting 2

 

unfolding the planter

 

 

lining up

 

 

fill with fertilizer

 

 

the new seeding is peeking out

 

 

feels good that the corn is in

Corm planting 1

yesterday morning 

Good sign, the fertilizer truck

 

 

the planter follows

 

 

opening lids

 

 

putting in silage corn

 

 

curious cat

 

 

we are planting a bit late this year

 

 

we'd missed the early rain that fell south of us

thankful for that!

 

closing the lids

there was only a little wind, just lots of humidity



Heifers join the dry cows outside

 

 

This time we brought the heifers to the pasture with the trailer

 

put them in the back pen for a little while

 

 

They started calm

 

 

but we had to fix the fence

 

 

some went to the small walk-out

 where they used to go as little calves

 

 

fence fixed, and they stayed in after this

 





Planting the garden

Seeding today?

 

I came home on Tuesday and this was in the field

 

 

half the field was seeded when he rained out

 

 

today it is still there but the forecast is good

we may get the whole field done soon

The long ride

 

Starting with a clean truck

 

 

Not many farmers in the field

 

 

gathering clouds

 

heavy rain for just a little while

refreshed, a good night sleep

 

rest stops every couple of hours

 

 Dike

 

 

Iowa, of the highway, no traffic

 

 

large farms

 

 

They are not that much farther then we are

 



The worst part was where 401 and 402 merged,

glad I usually don't go to Kitchener



Grand -Rapids stopover

 

 

 

Some very hospitable people live in Grand Rapids

 

 

Cookie is getting more sociable with age