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It certainly is getting crowded on the farm!
by orz at 4/29/2013 12:52:03 PM
All winter, the farm is locked in silence. I walk to the road and look up at a milion stars frozen in a black sky. And hear not a sound but wind. The blankets of snow cover everything and in day, the...
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Lets improve things and %&**# it up!
by orz at 4/26/2013 11:57:08 AM
I am so sick and tired of corporate america improving things to what THEY think I want. I went shopping for a product I had bought last many years ago. And ended up standing in front of an aisle space...
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Life moves on with 9 lives like cats.
by orz at 4/18/2013 2:29:20 PM
Thinking about my life right now. And of the years gone by. I am starting to think at old age, that we dont live a life..we live many. We are children and life is of parents and play and school. And t...
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Ice and snow and away we go.
by orz at 2/23/2013 12:36:18 PM
The first of March looms near, even tho the last couple days resembled winters of yore. At least the prarie, as Kansas winds blew a blizzard and snow fell 3 inches an hour. My Wisconsin farm lucked ou...
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Thank goodness xmas is over..onward to the next
by orz at 1/5/2013 3:10:07 PM
Went to Dollar Tree. WTH!?!? They have Easter stuff, next to St. Pats, next to Valentines Day. Why dont we just invent a multi decor and get it over with. And we just got through Christmas and New Yea...
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Can't I just sleep through Christmas?
by orz at 12/24/2012 12:19:34 PM
I dont want to get up. But, the dog routes me out.She knows nothing of holidays. Just that it is another day to glory in being alive. Maybe a cat is sitting on the doorstep. For her, hope is eternal. ...
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Talk about a wet snow!
by orz at 12/15/2012 1:54:30 PM
It is December 15th and it is raining! I see that this winter may be one like years ago. It stayed in the 40s to 50s most of the winter. I liked it cause I hate snow and cold. Got tons of stuff done o...
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A farmers love for....
by orz at 12/2/2012 12:25:48 PM
I love farm life! Moonlit nights, peeping frogs, spring birds and changing seasons. Cuddly baby animals, warm winter barns,full moons and a million stars, whipperwills and owl hoots, cranes and...
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Snow is a four letter word and more
by orz at 11/25/2012 11:55:56 AM
Well, I lost the 65 degree days, I fear. It is 25 in the day temps and supposed to warm back up to 50 maybe by weeks end.  No matter what, I will end up pushing to get things done before...
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Winding down and still confusing
by orz at 11/19/2012 10:29:46 AM
It is Novemeber. I think. But when it is 50-60, hard to believe it. But, as usual, winter approaches and shows me all that DIDNT get done this past summer. I have all the shingles on the roof that was...
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Do they make snuggies for chicks?
by orz at 10/18/2012 10:28:57 AM
Headed down to the other end of the compound yesterday to shingle on the garage. I got behind the barn heading down and heard a hen going off in the barn. Fine. I know it is nothing except someone wit...
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Now I know why they call it fall.
by orz at 10/13/2012 12:11:34 PM
I missed most of the frosts up on the hill by my house so trees and plants were staying green and growing. I see across the fields, the oaks along the lane are all brown and changed tho. The night tem...
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We will have more warm days..please!?
by orz at 10/5/2012 11:19:50 AM
Got down to 36 last night and is holding around 43 today. Windy as all get out. I still have green leaves on trees. Some are turning bright colors but some falling ones are just dead and dry from the ...
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Powwow means summer is over.
by orz at 9/30/2012 9:45:25 AM
Every fall, the oldest building just about in Lake Delton, holds the fall powwow. The owner Henry has Parson's Trading Post. It is store and indian museum. He holds the powwow for his friends, the nat...
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Washing dishes just to warm my hands!
by orz at 9/22/2012 11:30:25 AM
Even though it says fall starts this weekend, does nature have to prove it?! I sit on the puter and my hands get cold. So go wash dishes to run them under hot water. I finally broke down ...
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Anyone see summer? Must be gone!
by orz at 9/18/2012 11:24:19 AM
I just had a hail shower out of the blue! WTH? It got to 40 last night and they say frost up north. It was September 1st two days ago and already is the 18th!! Sheesh! And I thought Augus...
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Politic and more...tv can just collect dust!
by orz at 8/31/2012 8:47:50 AM
I am leaving the tv off. I have no desire to watch a bunch of out of touch polititians brag about what they will do for us. Especially when it always ends up..TO us! The Republicans are a...
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who will work for bird seed?
by orz at 8/22/2012 12:38:09 PM
I feed the birds all year. This year with the drought, seed production is poor. I have the whole hatch of a Tufted Titmouse pair coming to squabble over my seeds. I guess I am now Grandma. And who hun...
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I think I am going buggy
by orz at 8/12/2012 12:33:49 PM
I went to town the other day. The cicadas have hatched this year. I am doing 45 and see one is sitting on the spare which is on the front of my truck. Somehow he seems as cool as a cuke hanging onto t...
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One dang strange year
by orz at 8/10/2012 8:49:18 AM
It rained yesterday again and today is actually cold. There has been a second coming of spring and all the plants are re-sprouting after the drought finally broke here and we have had regular rains ag...
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What good are men, anyway?
by orz at 4/18/2012 1:31:26 PM
I was working on a roof yesterday. So plenty of time to think. Now...mom was great. She taught me a ton of stuff and buried me in love and sacrificed for dad and me. But..the subject is men. I was an ...
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Who needs a dog!!
by orz at 3/24/2012 10:23:31 AM
I grew up with a dog and have had them for most of my life. The one I grew up with was 110 pound Chessapeke Bay retriever who had been trained as a goose dog and guard dog. He was trained to kill on c...
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Take a walk with me
by orz at 2/17/2012 9:55:04 AM
Spring is sneaking into my world bit by bit. If it snows alot now, it will be so much harder to take. My wood shed is down to the last full cord. I found two huge mice nests which were driving the dog...
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The noise of silence
by orz at 1/8/2012 10:19:26 AM
What a winter! We are staying in the 40s for the most part and Tuesday is supposed to get to 50 again. Man, can I dig this weather. Some say on NPR that they see cranes but I dont so they have moved s...
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The winter of our discontentment
by orz at 12/22/2011 11:04:05 AM
This can be the saddest time of the year when one is old. I sit and look out the window at the snow clad pines, sitting in the house my father built for mom and I. And think of all he went through in ...
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Is that all there is?
by orz at 12/7/2011 11:53:04 AM
I dont know if it is the weather or what, but everyone I talk to is depressed. I had my crying jag last night. I am trying to dump some vehicles. And now...I who was anal about keys and titles...cant ...
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Beware of incoming!
by orz at 11/24/2011 1:09:25 PM
I took the dog out to the cliff by almost dark yesterday. And the cranes were looking for their nights roosting spots. Man what an unbeliveable sight and sound. They were wheeling over the river upstr...
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Natures artworks
by orz at 11/11/2011 10:53:23 AM
I took the dog out for her potty break for morning. While she was rooting around, I decided it is time to take the mallard decoy out of my little pond before it freezes in hard. So it gave me cause to...
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Don't let the wind blow up your
by orz at 11/5/2011 1:01:47 PM
I am afraid winter is close, like it or lump it. Some trees and plants are STILL trying to survive. The cranes are starting to flock along with the sea gulls on the river. The wood furnace is official...
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Where there is a will there is a way.
by orz at 10/27/2011 12:25:24 PM
The guy who rents my fields finally brought me my corn for the year. He used a smaller gravity box wagon, he doesn't use anymore. He said it can just stay on my farm for evermore. So I don't have to e...
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Finally,decent weather!
by orz at 10/8/2011 10:41:43 AM
It is a miracle. A full week of near 80, with no rain. So I hit the kitchen roof on the other house. And my tenant got a new job, days and is gone! Perfect timing! It never fails. So, I s...
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As the world turns
by orz at 9/26/2011 12:26:05 PM
I am freezing! It has rained as much this month as spring! I was going to stay roofing today...well tomorrow? Wednesday...rain ends. Maybe??? I am running the 2 electric heaters. I utterl...
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We all fall down
by orz at 9/8/2011 11:59:59 AM
You can feel and smell the change in the air. Tis the season to panic. Need to get all the work done it was too hot, too cold, too wet to do all summer. Before it gets too cold and snowy. I see a hard...
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I figured it out. I think.
by orz at 8/23/2011 10:54:11 AM
Well, after driving back and forth a mile or two every night around the farms...I got desperate and brave enough to drive Bullfrog to town. Out of corn will do that to you. Stopped to grab some produc...
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If it weren't for bad luck,I'd have no luck at all
by orz at 8/17/2011 11:09:36 AM
My farm truck is a basket case. The one the neighbor gave me has Flintstone brakes. I replaced lines and had help from 2 friends in bleeding them, but the adjusters aren't working so it is "I have bra...
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The best time of year!
by orz at 8/8/2011 11:11:34 AM
Summer is winding down on the farm. Now it will get cool enough to start the roofing and do all the work in 2 months that should have been done all summer. I am down to 5 cages of hens with chicks. I ...
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Entitlements my butt, you jerks
by orz at 7/27/2011 10:27:28 AM
I am getting so fed up with our congress, I could annialte them all! It is getting to be a joke, like watching a bunch of 5 year olds fighting over the ball. And then they say if the debt ceiling isn'...
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Back to school sales..already!?!?!
by orz at 7/16/2011 12:13:46 PM
This week is going to be Dante's Inferno and I am seeing back to school ads on tv already. what is the rush, except that corporate america needs our cash. I bought stuff for supplies for the neighbor ...
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Cars, cars, everywhere CARS!!!
by orz at 7/11/2011 10:13:14 AM
Went to the Iola car show and swap meet Friday. It has changed over the decades, for sure. The first time it was only a few years old or less. Maybe 200 vehicles alongside water in a park. Then it was...
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Oy vey!! What a day!!!
by orz at 7/4/2011 2:36:56 PM
Ok. Lets try this again. My keyboard just went ,so I have to use the other one to the monitor that is about 4 inches square. OK. So it isn't thhhaaat small!! How come most days are just ...
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Winter is coming!!!
by orz at 6/28/2011 11:10:42 AM
This has been the most screwed up spring! All it does is rain. The temps goes from cold to hot and back again. I went down to get the mail last night and stood and looked at the pasture. The grasses a...
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How do we get out of this mess
by orz at 6/22/2011 10:38:44 AM
I am always reading and listening to public radio. Folks keep writing articles and books about how this country is screwed up and sensible ways to get out of this mess we are in. If you talk around to...
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Chickens are nice people
by orz at 6/21/2011 11:17:22 AM
Heard on the radio that some women wrote a book called Cluck about chickens. They asked callers about stories. I could tell them a 1000. One of my first pets was a hen that would go swimming with me. ...
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Chickens do it in the dirt and facebook owns you
by orz at 6/19/2011 9:48:40 AM
Welcome to my rambling brain! I left my peafowl out into their pen yesterday. Sat and watched to see if they came outside. The peahen came out first. Then one of the peac*cks came down the ra...
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Sick of politics
by orz at 6/16/2011 11:22:36 AM
I am getting so fed up with the bull that is going on in this state as well as the nation. We have 2 parties that hate each other to the point that nothing can get done. They act like a bunch of first...
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National Geo moment
by orz at 6/8/2011 9:44:39 AM
I went to the nearby town for an event they now call Canal Days. And as usual, they botched it up. It gets more pathetic every year and I see it ending soon. Townies think they don't have to do any wo...
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Life on the river
by orz at 5/21/2011 2:48:54 PM
The Wisconsin river is finally getting low enough to get around on. Not like the Mississippi. Isn't it wonderful how the corp decides that farmers with crops in the field dont rate as much...
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Follow up on King George
by orz at 5/10/2011 10:28:37 AM
After two days, I found the frog tucked under the siding on the corner of the library window sill. He was staying out of the rain. I tried to talk to him and feed him and he already has forgotten me!!...
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King George has been de-throned
by orz at 5/8/2011 12:16:46 PM
Well, when the frog starts to end up in the kitchen sink, he is getting way to rowdy to stay in the house anymore. Good way for him to end up blenderized or something. I took the pineapple plant out o...
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How do you eat something that doesnt want to be?
by orz at 5/2/2011 11:02:30 AM
King George was on the edge of his pot at bedtime waiting to be fed. I found a huge tree frog under a tarp today when I was doing yardwork. Tried an experiment and stuck a vine tendril in front of its...
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Ever get your tongue bit by a beetle?
by orz at 4/27/2011 10:39:41 AM
Now I feel guilty! I fed King George last night. One white larva, one centipede and a beetle. Not sure if he could handle the hard shell, but try and see.  He will spit out what he doesn't...
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I am growing a killer frog
by orz at 4/26/2011 10:30:25 AM
Poor King george. He is so bored and wants out so bad. He went walkabout this morning. Jumped from plant to plant. Then went back to his ornamental bottle of marbles and sticky toed his way to sit on ...
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I hate stupid stores
by orz at 4/23/2011 9:58:36 AM
Had to do my monthly shopping yesterday. And why on Good Friday?!! Can't cross traffic cause too many cars. Of course as soon as we can go, someone has to stop to turn our way!! Get to Wally world. Ge...
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Crazy things I do
by orz at 4/19/2011 12:53:43 PM
I have been harboring a tree frog all winter in the house. He must have gone into hibernation in my pineapple plant. One day, I see him sitting on the edge of the pot in November. Oh GREAT!!!::surpris...
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Murphey's law strikes again
by orz at 4/14/2011 11:49:40 AM
Now I know why I rarely leave my farm. Went down to lock up and do night chores last night and found a rooster in the stock tank drowned. And of course it wasn't one of the useless ones. It was Bubba ...
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Thanks to all the nice folks welcoming me.
by orz at 4/11/2011 9:50:33 AM
You dont know how hard it is to enter the 21st century when I am happier in the 19th. I have no idea what twitter is, can't text and my cell phone is a pre-paid that does this crazy app..it phones!!! ...
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I have no idea what I am doing here?
by orz at 4/10/2011 9:36:42 AM
I have no idea what blogs really are, so I guess I will screw this up..but..for the few that have an orderly life...you can enjoy some of mine!! Hotter today than a bluetick coonhound hot...
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