A number of you guessed correctly the cause of the fire had to do with the smoke stack (or exhaust pipe) of the truck. The stack was too short causing the exhaust to blow right into the hay bales behind it. Stray pieces of hay may also have blown down the stack while the truck […]
FIRE!
Here’s the excitement in our neck of the desert today. The view coming down the east side of the mountain. Calming the fire before the rest of the hay is consumed. See the different colored smoke from the various items on fire? The truck is completely burned to a puddle because of all the fuel […]
First Wildfire of the Season
Two days after our Independence Day celebration we had a great lesson on why we didn’t do any fireworks! Semisweet had just returned from an evening jog when Mr. Ferrero Rocher took off to check the pivots. Within those two minutes of Semisweet returning before Mr. FR left a small brush fire was started. We […]
Harvesting Green Gold
We’ve started. Three swathers mow hay, leaving trails of green gold to dry in the sun. Three hundred and sixty acres were mowed yesterday. Only about a thousand more acres, or nine more pivots, left to cut. The rest of the pivots (6) are growing wheat and corn, rotation crops in old stands of alfalfa. […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Summertime Alliteration
Today’s Wordfull Wednesday Topic: Choose a letter of the alphabet. Pen a quick story about your typical summer day using as many words as you can that begin with your chosen letter. “A little alliteration lets the lesson linger longer!” (a line in a grammar poem from my eighth grade teacher) Golden rays of sunshine […]
Simple Pleasures: Family
My grandfather’s funeral was Tuesday. He has a large posterity – 12 children, 33 grandchildren, and 54 great-grandchildren. Most of us that could make it were gathered together to celebrate his life, to rally around Guelita (my grandmother), and to just be together. It was nice to meet so many of my cousins’ spouses, whom […]
Planting
Bags crinkle in the afternoon stillness as their contents are emptied into waiting earth. Seeds are planted, one by one, in holes dug by hoes down the length of rows. Little hands help to move the soil, covering the seeds, patting encouragement for them to grow and produce a bountiful harvest. Water. The lifeblood of […]
Branding Time
A hundred or so calves face off against ‘real’ cowboys on horses and ranchers waiting to ear tag, immunize, castrate the bull calves, and brand. Sounds like fun, right? It is! Unless your one of the calves… We haven’t just been caught up in doing our Easter Countdown this past week. Branding was on Wednesday, […]
Fun on the farm in spring
Ah, spring! The weather is cold and snowy one day and gloriously sunny and warm the next, only to have it turn windy and cool again. This week we took advantage of all types of weather. On Tuesday the kids talked Mr. Ferrero Rocher into giving them a ride on the grade-all. It goes up […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Women From Our Past
Today’s Wordfull Wednesday we are sharing stories of women ancestors from our own family history. Today I am sharing the story of my great-great-great grandmother Ramona as told by my own grandmother, Yaya, in a book of family history stories she wrote for her grandchildren when we were small. Keep that in mind when you […]
Age Appropriate Chores/Skills
Think of some famous musician, sports player, or artist. How did they acquire the skills they have? Chances are for most of them it took work, lots and lots of dedicated work, learned sequentially and methodically, to achieve the level they are at now. The same lesson applies to us and to our children. Any […]
Keeping A Journal
Do you ever wonder, as you go through your days, what a typical day was like for one of your ancestors? How early did they rise? What chores or work did they have to do? What was it like to read by candlelight in the evenings or have to heat water before washing? The only […]
Spud Nut
I do like other foods besides chocolate. Honest! 1. French Fries, preferably from Wendy’s. They’re even better dipped in a chocolate Frosty! 2. Baked Potatoes – plain and unadulterated with a dollop of butter and some salt and pepper. 3. Mashed Potatoes rich with sour cream and butter. 4. Cracker Barrel Hashbrowns 5. Homemade Country […]
Grand living
The Salt Lake neighborhood we lived in was grand. It really was a terrific place for families. There were so many kids to play with! Most were in our ward (church congregation) and we went to the same schools. Our church building LeGrand Ward was just a couple blocks up. Emerson Elementary was another block […]
Jolly fun
I lived in Salt Lake City for the first six years of my life, just two houses down from my paternal grandparents and about 8 blocks away from my maternal grandparents. Both sides of the family were close by with aunts, uncles and cousins providing constant entertainment. Being the oldest grandchild on my father’s side […]
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