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Politics

Twitter feels like spying

August 28, 2009

There’s quite the farming community on Twitter. There’s a perception out there that farmers aren’t smart enough or connected enough or have time enough to Twitter. It turns out that a lot of Big Ag has guys out in big tractors and combines and such driving in big circles all the live long day. Many [...]

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Forty Wasted Years

July 20, 2009

The Eagle landed forty years ago today. It felt like the end of the beginning. It was the beginning of the end. The last Apollo missions were killed to pay for welfare checks and cheese from Wisconsin, (Yes, that would be Mondale and Proxmire.) Then it was morning in America. Band aid the shuttle, tanks [...]

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Overriding Concerns

October 5, 2008

We’ll return shortly t our regularly scheduled farm journal. But first I want to comment on two important events this week. First, the Wall St. bailout. Yes it was a bailout. It was rammed through with high pressure and panic, just like the Patriot Act and the Iraq war. I’m sure he just made the [...]

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Ten Thousand Years of Woodsmoke in October

October 14, 2003

Last night I was watching the sunset from the balcony. It was cooling down, and I’d lit the woodstove at lunchtime. The last leaves were still beautiful, and I caught a whiff of smoke on the breeze. It all just seemed so right, so comfortable. Somehow, that bit of woodsmoke made the dying year and [...]

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Politics in the Garden

May 6, 2003

I got an email the other day in response to this entry, where I wrote and showed pictures of the red, white and blue pansies that I put on my front porch. The reader said to me that she was glad to meet a fellow Republican gardener, and that we should stick together. She spoke [...]

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1.3 Million Grandchildren

May 5, 2003

The Old Man of the Mountains died last weekend, leaving 1.3 million grandchildren and uncountable neices and nephews. That pile of rock symbolized New Hampshire in a way that few other states, hell few other places of any kind are symbolized. Really the only other ones I can think of are the Kiwi and the [...]

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Coming Back

September 11, 2001

Like the rest of the country, and really, much of the rest of the world, we’ve been huddled inside the house, mourning and watching the September 11th news coverage, not tending to the garden. Eventually, though, we just had to get outside. Frank went out and moved firewood and drove tractors last night, restless. I [...]

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