Last year’s July 4th weekend project with my son was the building  the pheasant fly pen, a 45 x 25  net enclosed space for the pheasants to grow out from 6 weeks to about 18 weeks.  It is covered with netting and has about 6 – 7 feet of head room
Along the east, long side,
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I am a fan of the writing of William Paul Winchester and his book A Very Small Farm.
In it, he writes:
Coming home to the farm was itself the end of a journey.  What is “home” if not that place?  And the best evidence of having arrived is that I do not feel compelled to always
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While walking Two Mile Ranch today, I worked my way to the far east fence, then walked the county, grade B (as in “barely graded”) road that is the south border of the ranch.  I know I’ve walked this road every week that I’ve lived here, but I must not have done this often in
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