Catching Up

I will forego all the 2013 excuses and the 2014 promises, but I will try to write more.  Why?  Simply because I enjoy it.


Farm happenings since last blog:

• cows got out and DESTORYED the vegetable garden
• a very wet year turned into a drought
• ponds were rebuilt
• end of growing season - which actually ended very early for our veggies!
• whittled on the 2013 produce stockpile (many family and friends shared their garden bounty so we could "put up" our normal amount of canned/frozen staples)
• last calf of the year born
• all cows came home to winter from their summer pastures
• half the calves went to the sale barn
• feeding hay
• electric waterers in use
• gravel for the driveway delivered and spread!  yeah
• firewood cut, but not near enough for the winter
• 2013 hunting season done
• snow and ice removal
• the to do list worked on, but of course NOT completed

There was one project which did get completed, and I want to share it.

It most likely started in the 1960's.  The photo below is from 1971.

Look over the driver side fender.  See the top of a blue spruce?  Cute little thing.

 

 

Fast forward from 1971 to the 1980's.

 



See the spruce to the right of the garden patch? More stately rather than cute.

 

Leap from 1980's to one month or so ago.

 

 

 

 

 Sad to see it go, but there was no life left.  Age and disease caught up with our majestic spruce.

No more shelter for our feathered friends.

The view from our windows will never be the same.

New resting place,........offering shelter to our furry friends down by the newly built pond.

 

Cutting down the spruce was on the "to do list".  But it did not feel like a chore.  It felt like a farewell to us.

 

Rest assured a replacement will be planted this spring!  The 2014 garden catalogs are arriving daily.