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Daily activities of the owner of
a 20 acre Organic Farm plus
observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
| 1 | Took leftover pumpkins off our Roadside Stand. Set aside good pumpkins for seed recovery - the rest were dumped out in the fields. |
| 2 | Hauled bags of leaves from our "Leaf Drop-off Sign" and took them to the open furrows in the fields. |
| 3 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Trimmed weeds in the Tomato Field. Surprising Election Results |
| 4 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Bush, Hitler, and The Emperor's New
Clothes I'm reminded of history and the transformation of other powerful nations. Germany comes quickly to mind. Hitler was elected by the people in a free election. He didn't campaign on world conquest and extermination of the Jews. Once he got in power, things began to change. His agenda, tactics, and of course the outcome changed. By and large, the German people who voted him into office did nothing significant to object - information which seemed to indicate a change in agenda was largely ignored. I hope the USA is not going through a comparable change. We seem to look down our nose at other countries and lecture them on human rights topics. How clean is our own house? How many non-combatant Iraq citizens have we directly affected by our action? Recall that some of the first military actions were cruise missile attacks at places where they thought Sadam Hussein was having a meeting. He wasn't there. But the missiles landed - and did their damage. How well did we consider the human rights of those present where the damage occurred? A good test of our international human rights is to compare it to our domestic practices. Did we launch a missile attack on Timothy McVeigh's neighborhood when we thought he might be home? Accept the destruction of his neighborhood as acceptable collateral damage? No. We wouldn't stand for that - but apparently it's OK on foreign soil. Little wonder the Arab nations don't like the USA. I think our current presence in Iraq is way off base. We are there under false pretenses. Our president lied to us about the reasons we should wage war on that country. Facing that truth is far too painful for us as a nation. We would rather compliment The Emperor on his New Clothes. |
| 5 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Took apart the Roadside Stand and put the material in winter storage. |
| 6 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields. This was our heaviest leaf day of the season. Where we got about 7,000 bags of leaves altogether, we got about 1,500 bags of leaves on this Saturday alone. |
| 7 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields ("only" got about 500 bags today). Brush chopped the family garden then plowed it. Placed leaves in the open furrows. |
| 8 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Roto tilled the Tomato Field. |
| 9 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Weed chopped all our flower beds. |
| 10 | Deep roto tilled the Tomato Field and added leaves to 5 rows. |
| 11 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Finished roto tilling the Tomato Field and adding leaves. |
| 12 | Pulled up the posts and
wires from the overflow row of tomatoes. Got a flat tire on Miss Daisy from an old broken grape post. Got it fixed at a tire repair shop. Brush chopped the Fairway West Field and the Basketball Field. |
| 13 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Plowed the Fairway West Field, dumped leaves and disked. |
| 14 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields. Started moving stored bags of leaves to fields. (On days when the rate of arrival of leaf bags was greater than the rate at which I could dump them in their proper place in a field, I just made a drop area where the bags accumulated. On days when we didn't get too many bags of leaves, I would start working the pile of stored leaf bags.) |
| 15 | Finished moving the stores
bags of leaves to the fields. Plowed the basketball field. |
| 16 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Brought crates of firewood into the Greenhouse from our wood pile for drying. |
| 17 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Dug up the last potatoes in the Grapes Field SE. |
| 18 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Disked the family garden and fields which had been covered in leaves. |
| 19 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields. |
| 20 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Cleaned out the overflow line at the Marsh Pond. Muskrats had clogged it up and with recent rains, the pond was going over its banks. |
| 21 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Disked the pumpkin field. Cleaned the chimney on our wood burning stove. |
| 22 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Brought more crates of firewood into the greenhouse. |
| 23 | Hauled bags of leaves to the
open furrows in the fields. Disked the East Meadow SE Field. |
| 24 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields just before a heavy snow. |
| 25 | 6 - 7" of heavy snow for Thanksgiving Day. |
| 26 | Went for a hike at Grand Mere State Park at the shores of Lake Michigan. |
| 27 | Rained all day. |
| 28 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields. |
| 29 | Rainy. |
| 30 | Hauled bags of leaves to the open furrows in the fields. |
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