A farmer works in acres not hours.
The work began on the day after Christmas and continued through Monday, New Years Eve. We unloaded a UHaul trailer with the chairs and couch bought at Still Good. The first evening arrived with a spectacular sunset. Click to see a larger view. The north field leased by Driskel Cotton Farms was evenly blanketed in […]
Continue Reading[slideshow id=1] Saturday, 9/1/12 Tommy and Mandy Browning had painted the: living room walls; entry walls; kitchen/breakfast room ceiling. The work looked great and really wet our appetite to paint the rest. The next six days will be spent by Mary painting with Tom helping by painting the ceilings in the den, living room, dining […]
Continue ReadingThis was not to be a total work trip but that is the way it turned out. As I can make this post that is proof that we did not work all day all days. But, we did enough to make it eligible to be a “work trip” even though it rain a every day–so […]
Continue ReadingOn this Memorial Day weekend we got a lot done. The big thing for me was getting the pole on the barn and the roof joist re-attached before hurricane season. Yeah, it made it through some bad hurricanes so far but no need to continue to take that chance. Ted had pushed up all the […]
Continue ReadingThis will be remembered as the weekend when:– we first tried out the Swisher line trimmer;– climbed on top of the grain bin to reinstalled the cap after jacking up the auger, and;– most memorable: the day Ted cleared the trash trees from the east and north side of the barn. Arrived at the farm […]
Continue ReadingArrived at the farm about 4 PM and found the pond partially full and everything very green. The pond was very still and provided a mirrored image of the pecan trees. Tried out the new Swisher line trimmer and it worked great. Found a lot of weeds in the new rose beds from the Home […]
Continue ReadingMary and I drove to the farm on 12/26/2011 to continue cleanups and improvements and enjoy the country life.We were greeted by Peggy’s rooster known as Buffy–as he is a Buffington breed. He came to visit every day and hung around often hopping along in the oak tree. Something else for the dogs to bark […]
Continue ReadingThis was an abnormal Thanksgiving as Mary and I spent Thanksgiving day in Houston with Kelley, Rocky and Rocky Sr. Jeff joined us later in the day. A nice day but not the same as this day has been for the past 38+ years: i.e. I have always been in Mobile But, this year we […]
Continue ReadingThis was the first trip in the “new” 2002 Ford F250, Super Duty, diesel truck. Great ride over with all the room and the bed loaded with plastic containers of dishes, curtains, tools, framed art prints, etc. Everything at the farm is in good shape with the big pile of grape arbor debris and dead […]
Continue ReadingPeggy reported that today Ted–who is renting land for his cows–and two young men were cleaning out the grape arbor area in the barn yard. When he and I fixed the broken pipe that takes water to his cows he said he would come back and push out the brush in between the fence and […]
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