Posts Tagged ‘ Two Mile Ranch ’

Savin’ this bar, one beer at a time

Aug 23rd, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
Savin’ this bar, one beer at a time

WHAT?  You’ll have to type your comments LOUDER?  I can’t HEAR you!  I spent the night at the street dance: my ears are ringing, my voice is scratchy, and I’m not hungover.
This is rodeo weekend in Grand River, just up the Seven Mile Road from Two Mile Ranch.  In this part of the Midwest, small
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M R Ducks

Mar 1st, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
M R Ducks

It was really simple enough.

I was just going to the feed store to get cracked corn for the pheasants and some starter feed to stock up for this year’s new pheasant arrivals in a few months.

While I was there, I got to talking with the owner and he asked,

“You wouldn’t want 4 Black Cayuga ducklings would you?”



Spring moments

Feb 10th, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
Spring moments

After enduring (there is really no other word) a long dark and cold winter, this afternoon was the third day of unseasonably warm weather in the high 50’s and clear blue skies.  A rooster pheasant greeted me in the drive when I pulled up in the car, and a pair of rosters were scratching for
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Post Christmas beauty

Dec 28th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

The post-Christmas weather included an ice storm, 56 degree days, a inch or two of snow, and wind.
Today was a picture perfect day.



The first driveway after the two mile marker (or not)

Nov 27th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren
The first driveway after the two mile marker (or not)

“All good things must come to an end”
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
There is no more “Two Mile Ranch”
Well, that’s not true, it will always be “Two Mile Ranch” but today, a country worker drove the length of 7 Mile Road  in his pickup.  He stopped, attached a chain, and removed
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Accidental orchard yields fall apples

Sep 27th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren
Accidental orchard yields fall apples

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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Bought the farm

Apr 23rd, 2005 | By Fritz Nordengren

On Tuesday the farm was officially ours. The paper’s signed, the deeds recorded, the check’s written. Now the work/fun begins. Tuesday’s business included posting some private property signs. I have a thing against “No trespassing” — but I know it’s an accepted tradition. But it leaves me cold. So I shopped around for some signs
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Three years…yeah right

Mar 25th, 2005 | By Fritz Nordengren
Three years…yeah right

My friend Ronnie Garrison told me it took him nearly three years to find his farm in Georgia, about 30 minutes from his home in Griffin. That was when I started looking for ground in the fall of 2002.I knew I might have to search, but I also thought I could find what I wanted
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