The Peabody Hotel in Memphis parades a pair of ducks through the lobby every afternoon.  Every 6 months or so, they get new ducks.  Big whup!
The 4 black cayuga ducks of Two Mile Ranch can get on and off the little pond by themselves.  Getting to the pond, has never been a problem, getting OFF
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June 21 is the summer solstice and the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn.  The days grow shorter following the 21st.

It is time this week to say good bye to my first friend at Two Mile Ranch.  That friend is Ol Red, the Farmall 706 that came as part of the property deal when I bought the farm in 2005.
I never called “Ol Red” by name except in this blog, A tractor does not have
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I am now part of the tv signal-less rural America.  According to the FCC Web site  interactive map of DTV signals around Two Mile Ranch, converter box or not, antennae or not, I won’t be seeing over-the air TV any time soon.
This is not a big change in my life. I don’t own a
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The European name is the Rose moon, but the Algonquin’s called the June full moon the Strawberry moon in honor of the time to harvest the sweet red fruit.

There is something odd in the idea of a couple of older guys who live on  farms going to Des Moines for a book reading and signing by the author on a Friday night.  Of course, if one of the guys is the author himself, he has a good reason.  I, on the other hand,
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I had the pleasure  of spending Saturday with nearly 200 people concerned about the future of small farm life.  A vibrant dairy farmer in Iowa, Jerry Harvey,  organized a “Dairy Farmers Rally for Fair Prices” in Manchester, Iowa.  I learned of the event via Twitter and offered to help show my support by taking some
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