The Modern Amish

The Maize and Blue won two this weekend so we are headed to Denver April 10-12 for the Frozen Four!

For those of you who don’t follow college hockey, the Michigan Wolverines have the most national championships (9), the most Frozen Four appearances (23), the longest streak of appearances in the NCAA tournament (18), and they’ve [...]

By special request, today’s farming tip focuses on milking your cow. From the National Mastitis Council’s list of milking tips, our tip today extols the benefits of teat massage.

Good Massage Increases Production - When teats and the lower part of the udder are massaged, a signal is sent to the brain which [...]

Amidst the normal morning activity, I heard a knock at my bedroom door.  I open it to discover my son holding a pair of sweat pants in one hand (the kind with the zipper up the leg) and a stapler in the other hand.  “Can I just staple this since the zipper is broke?” he [...]

I try not to daydream too much.  For the most part I left that behind when I finally realized that I wasn’t going to be a professional athlete.  But every so often I find myself drifting.  Drifting back to the trip my wife & I took to Juneau, Alaska 5 years ago.  We didn’t have [...]

A fire at a meat packing plant?  Who’s bringing the barbeque sauce?  You better bring a lot.  This place pushes out about 2 million pounds of steak & ground beef a week.
What’s that?  The fire was burning anhydrous ammonia?  Um….   nevermind.
Darn.  Now I’m all hungry for a T-bone.

I shouldn’t be shocked anymore.  I’ve seen so many things when driving that I should be immune to astonishment now.  But I can’t help it.  It still happens.  I blame NASCAR. 
No don’t get me wrong, I love NASCAR.  Or I used to.  My father used to race all over SW Mo before he settled down, [...]

Ever had one of those days when you aren’t sure if your heifer is feeling up to snuff?  Haven’t we all?  Well today’s farming tip is for you then.  The Texas County (Mo) Soil and Water Conservation District website gives us these tips on how to determine Is She Sick?

First of all think of how the animal [...]

For anyone who didn’t know, Saturday was technically St. Patrick’s Day. And I’ve got a big beef with it. Not that the Catholic Church moved it. Not that what St. Patrick is credited with is most likely a fable. No, my complaint is why do we only celebrate one St. Patrick? There’s so many important [...]

For those of you that are dreaming of making some cash from having big birds running around your palatial estate, today’s farming tip is for you.  From eHow.com and their article “How To Become an Emu Farmer” comes this tip on the acreage you’ll need.

Provide adequate land for your emus to run and exercise. Emu [...]

One of the few things I don’t like about movies is trying to find ones that I want to watch.  I’m fairly picky because the majority of films made today substitute profanity for actual dialogue.  In other words they can’t think of a good line in a given situation, so they just drop an f-bomb in.  Or [...]