Well, it feels like calving since my little Roxee doesn’t sleep through the night yet. I thought I would try keeping her from getting spoiled but I’ve found that she will sleep longer and later if I take her to bed with me (I don’t do this all the time—only […]
Kim Jo Bliss – Moo’s From The Herd
My boyfriend/partner and I ventured off to Warren, Mn. to pick up my new best friend. “Roxee,” my new black Lab, has now joined farm life here north of Emo. She is very tiny and once again I find myself carrying her because, #1, she is cute and cuddly, #2 […]
Happy New Year to everyone! In many ways, I’m glad to see 2011 behind us. But I’m always cautious in complaining too much because I know things always could be much worse. I wasn’t able to stay awake long enough to ring in 2012 but I trust there were plenty […]
I don’t normally wish time away but I’m looking forward to 2012. It seems the end of 2011 is not going to go down in history as a great time for me. First, my dog died. Then on the weekend, my youngest Hereford bull died and then later my washing […]
Wow, time certainly is ticking away quickly now and I have very little Christmas shopping done yet. Shopping is not my thing. It’s not that I’m cheap. I just don’t enjoy shopping and find no one truly needs much, so you tend to buy just to buy and that’s no […]
Thank you to everyone for all the nice notes, cards, and gifts in memory of “Karma.” I still feel very lost and lonely, but it certainly made me feel good knowing how many people saw how much she meant to me and what a good dog she was. In the […]
I had a crazy week of organizing the sale of five of my purebred Hereford heifers. They left Sunday for Russia (yes, Russia) before heading to Kazakhstan. They will be quarantined near Toronto for 30 days, then they will fly from there (the plane holds nearly 200 head). We met […]
Another week of beautiful weather across Rainy River District. Hard to believe it’s already approaching mid-November! My helper at the Emo Agricultural Research Station (Chantelle) and I were busy this past week with the bio-mass grasses. The miscanthus has a very tough stem but the hedge trimmer worked awesome. The […]
I’ve finished plowing here at Emo Agricultural Research Station (EARS). What a good feeling! It seemed to take forever near the end, but I’m still amazed I finished without too many layers of clothes! Now this week we will be concentrating on our bio-mass grass harvest. We spent a fair […]
I was able to summarize our weather data and we ended up with 2,493 Corn Heat Units, which is a bit more than normal (2,350). Meanwhile, rainfall for May, June, July, August, and September was 280.4 mm (11.2 inches), well below the norm of 440.5mm (17.6 inches), so we really […]
This wind is not very enjoyable and I’m hoping it is gone soon. We spent a good part of the weekend in the bush fencing and the trees were snapping off all around us. It actually was a bit creepy. We were short a roll of wire, unfortunately, otherwise we […]
Last week, I was invited by Dan Rose to tour a great deal of the area west of Markdale, Ont. Dan, as many of you will know, was the ag rep for our district in the late 1960s, but he and his wife continue to have ties to the area […]
