Hey all. Hope you're making it through this nice springy week. Aaron and I both teach so this time of year means that we are wrapping things up at school. We both only have one more teaching day and then off to the finals. It's been a strange semester and has us both thinking more about the nature and intent of education, especially higher education. We both think things are bound to change but we're not sure exactly how. Anyway - you are not here for college talk! You're her

Hello dear ones. We made it through the night, all safe and sound. -2 degrees is really cold here. I would GLADLY take 100 degrees - that I can manage. But what do you do with the cold? It did look beautiful today, and I think (fingers crossed) we're over the below zero portions of the program. Still no Maybelline piglets. I'm hoping for tomorrow when it is forecast for 25 degrees - a real improvement. She's really dragging this out - also possible that I'm not the patient pe

When I have computer work to do that doesn't require all of my attention, I'll play a TV show in the background. Mostly they are pretty trashy choices (I see you Top Model). But - I'm now listening to/watching Victorian Farm on Amazon. Not trashy. It may be too interesting, though, because I keep finding myself fixated on their horse plow or coal range or crumbling plaster. They are doing such cool things. It does look like hard work, for sure. Loving it. Also, I'm going to h

Hey folks. Greetings from the little farm. I was feeding the soon-to-be mother pigs tonight and enjoying spending time with them when it occurred to me that maybe other people would like a little taste of the farm days. I often collect the highlights from my day - who moved to what pasture, what field we seeded, how many eggs, etc - in a notebook but I thought, for the foreseeable future, I'd include them in the blog. So let's see what happened today! So according to my metic