• One of those moods….

    ….sometimes you just don’t feel like going out and feeding the pigs….and that’s when you get what might be called “off topic posts”.  Though as I confessed in my very first post, I have no idea just what the topic of this blog is. I like this for the spirit and an insight to one of the many things going on that we never hear about.  The Miami Dolphins cheerleaders recently put together a music video for our troops in Afghanistan. Some creative types over there took time out from “surviving” to respond with a video of their own….perfectly mirroring the cheerleaders.  Watch to see some young people enjoying themselves in dreadful…

  • Baring their “all”….or almost all….

    ….a group of young farmers in southwest England got together  for an unusual concept for a fund-raiser: a nude calendar.  Don’t know what it is about the Brits and their nude calendars (remember the movie “Calendar Girls“? In Devon circles, about as racy as we get is a calendar featuring cows…unclothed…but nevertheless still cows.  Warning:  we’re about to show one of the pages so if you are easily offended, go away and come back in a few days. While you search for the “back button” we will fill with the report of the chap who put this all together. Rob Willcoxm, Somerset County chairman and now known as Mr December,…

  • A few helpful tips….

    ….from our farm manager Duane Ard, who spotted this on Facebook and now has a few years of experience with an “Old Farmer”: Advice from an Old Farmer: – Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. – Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. – Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. – A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. – Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. – Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. – It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. – You cannot unsay a cruel word. – Every…