Fall is a busy time around here. The farmers are in the fields hurrying to get the corn and soybeans harvested before winter comes. The combines and tractors run 24/7 in years that there is a lot of rain or bad weather. Everybody is trying to get their homes and yards ready for the onslaught …
I know that I haven’t been on here very much of late. A lot of this is due to the aforementioned work + travel. Some of it is because it is spring and that means GARDENING!!!! I’ve not been able to have much of a garden for a few years now and I never really …
So the past week or so has been all about getting the corn (maize) out of the fields. I figured that I would share with you a few photos of it…
Today I went with my dad to fill up the tanker with yellow. Yellow is a (mostly) liquid by-product of ethanol production that seems to be composed primarily of protein. It’s technically called Wet Distiller’s Grains and this “yellow” is what is left after the distillation process has taken place. Animals seem to love it. …
Tonight, after watching Micheal the monster mutt wrangle the goats into their pen for the night (that never ceases to amuse me) I came back to my brothers and taking advantage of the seemingly stable internet for once, decided to watch Brenda Dayne of the podcast Cast-On taking her turn on the 4th Plinth. It …
I’m writing this from my bother’s house surrounded by gun parts, military uniforms and other manly paraphernalia with Top Gun on the t.v. It is a seriously far cry from Badlands National Park in South Dakota. If the Western part of the US has a desperate sort of beauty the Badlands are screaming bloody murder. …
Sarah Jane Humke 