Comment/Response? 
Daily activities of the owner of a 20 acre Organic
Farm plus
observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
| 1 | Emptied the Roadside Farm Stand. Took down the shelves and roof panels. |
| 2 | Took apart the Roadside Farm Stand and leaned the walls against the greenhouse for winter storage. |
| 3 | Hauled leaves dropped off for our organic fields. Pulled up dead tomato plants. |
| 4 | Hauled more leaves and pulled more tomato plants. |
| 5 | Hauled more leaves and
pulled more tomato plants. The
Best Of Times |
| 6 | Pulled tomato plants. |
| 7 | Hauled leaves. Put firewood in the greenhouse for final drying for winter burns in our wood stove. |
| 8 | Hauled leaves. |
| 9 | Hauled leaves. Switched off the sale of Jumbo sunflower seed heads on our Web site due to selling out of this year's crop. |
| 10 | Hauled leaves. |
| 11 | Hauled and dumped leaves. Disked the East Meadow NE Field, New Fairway Field, and the East Pond Field. |
| 12 | Hauled leaves. Finished pulling out tomato plants. |
| 13 | Hauled leaves and roto tilled half of the tomato field. |
| 14 | Anti-Insurance - Preparations For Good
Times I think there's plenty of of business and human thought over bad times and insurance coverage for the bad times in life. I doubt that there's enough thought and preparation for good times though. I think we should put equal amounts of preparation toward being successful and having good times in life. In contrast to Chairman Greenspan's aversion to "Irrational Exuberance" - with a little preparation and planning, I think we could make more of our good times into great times. My sense is that we usually settle for only good times - and then feel pretty luck to be getting those at all. |
| 15 | Started a vacation to visit friends and family near Atlanta, GA. |
| 16 | Civilized Humans - Evolution Chaos If you read about Darwinism, evolution, and natural selection, you can understand how the whole thing is supposed to work - the more fit, smarter, stronger individuals are the ones that reproduce and as a consequence, the species get better over time. Consider us humans, however. Civilized beings that we are, we have eliminated the "natural" competition reproduction that strengthens the species. Sure, a gifted athlete sometimes had children with a Nobel Prize winner smart person - but on the whole, human evolution is a pretty chaotic state of affairs. I think the raccoon population is doing much better than humans - they are rapidly learning how to adapt to urban sprawl. I'm not sure that as a specie, the human race is doing much of any evolution at the moment. |
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| 18 | Road Signs And Life's Goals As I drive across the country on interstate highways, I always see the road mileage signs as a good way to view goals in life. The road mileage signs usually have the next exit name, then a medium distance location, then a really far location - something like "Stevensville - 1 mile, Kalamazoo - 50 miles, Detroit - 250 miles". I see life goals to be similar - many small, nearby things to be done - and often these lead to medium and long term goals. Perhaps "Plow an additional field for sunflowers (today), so maybe next year I can have more seed heads to sell (medium term), and after several years, maybe I can retire comfortably (long term). |
| 19 | Special Credit Cards For Foreign Travel Being a Web Master and operating an Internet business, you can't help but encounter credit card fraud from time to time. For me, most of it has been international - with Nigeria leading the pack by a considerable margin. We usually get an order with a credit card number, name, expiration, and foreign address. We do as much checking as we can and then get burned when the REAL owner refuses payment. The abuse of traveler credit cards on foreign soil makes be think that any foreign travelers should get a special credit card or two for their foreign travel. Use it only for the trip, pay it off when you get home, then delete the account. I think this would reduce the chances that your regular finances would be at risk for abuse or identity theft. |
| 20 | Smart Cat - Stupid Cat You probably noticed from my photos that cats have been an important part of my life. In having the opportunity to have lived with dozens of cats, I have come to the conclusion that there are smart cats and then there are stupid cats. I think a good "Cat intelligence test" is the need to open a partly closed hinged door from either side. Smart cats figure out that one one side you have to push and on the other side you have to pull. Stupid cats can usually push a door open but are at a loss when they try the same technique from the other side of the door. Do you have cats? Are they smart or stupid? |
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| 22 | Came home from our vacation. We had about 1,000 bags of leaves waiting for us in our driveway. We decided to not take down our signs inviting the public to drop off their leaf bags while we were on vacation. Instead, we put up signs in various places the place overflow leaf bags here and there. They had all been used - and then some! |
| 23 | Fingers In Your Photo? I work part time in a One Hour Photo Lab and have seen countless examples of people's fingers partly blocking the lens. Are you one of those people with flappin fingers that get in you photos? If so, I have a solution. Take your camera and put dabs of hot glue in the places where you want your fingers to rest. When you take your next photo, rest your fingers on their "home bases" and you won't see portions of your fingers in your photos any more. |
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| 25 | After fighting the flu for a couple days, I started the daunting task of hauling the mountain of leaf bags out to the fields. |
| 26 | Finally finished hauling the 1,000 leaf bags to the fields. The bags still need to be opened and spread out over the fields and get plowed in. But for now, I'm glad to just the bags hauled out of the driveway. |
| 27 | Put up some seed storage shelves in our basement near the basement greenhouse. |
| 28 | Hauled more leaves that were dropped off. |
| 29 | Dumped leaf bags in the Grapes - NW Field. |
| 30 | Dumped more leaf bags in Grapes-NW. |
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