Buddy's sons 2012

Well, we sold our bull, Buddy in January. He got out and once they start that it is hard to keep them in the fence. He was a wopping 1,800 pounds! We also sold Jr, (a steer) and Willie ( a young bull). That left us with the cows, Red and Ruby, and Ruby's heifer, Trouble.  The name Trouble of course suits her, as she has been some trouble from the day she was born. As she gets older hopefully she In May, Red had a bull (named RB) and in June, Ruby had a bull (named RB2). Of course they are all red. Thanks Buddy, but we were hoping for heifers!

Larry the CornMan

I don't have a picture of when the field corn was small, but here is a picture of Larry in the corn as of the last day in June. His sister doesn't like it...she can't see us!  It hides Marty's house too. And it will probably be there until October. Hope it rains soon or it won't matter the length of time in the field because there won't be any ears of corn to harvest. As soon as the corn is harvested we are going to plant fesque grass, I think that's how it is spelled, so the cows will have something to eat. The picture also shows how wet Larry's shirt is, but he stays out in it most of the day. A corner of his sister's (Gayle)  house can be seen to the left of Larry. We would sit in our sunroom each day and watch the corn growing..up to the bottom of her car's tail-lights..to the bottom of the window in her living-room..to the top of her living-room window..haha..where is the house?! Really she just laughs about it. But 2 days ago Larry ask her if she put a curse on our corn, because of no rain, and she just laughed and said no she didn't but she thought about it! She really is a good humored person.

drought of 2012

It has been at least 3 weeks since the last rain, and the last rain brought high winds which blew down our sweet corn. In a couple of days it was up again as seen in the pictures. Luckily the field corn didn't hurt then, but is now starving for water. We are watering what we can from our well. But things are suffering bad. Heat is very bad too. The temps are in the hunderds...102, 105, in other words HOT! I'm trying to show the corn, not the neighbor's (Marty's) house!