Farmer Joe's B-day Recommendation of the Day
OK, this is a limited-time offer folks. You have until the end of today only to buy this:For the princely sum of $2.99 you get a Digital Blue Disney Mix Micro Blue Chrome MP3 PlayerAt that price,...
View ArticleTexas Blackberries
What a surprise! I was out cleaning up the fenceline in the pastures with Ginger and Winter this evening and saw a bit of red down in the grass. At first I thought they were wild raspberries. Then I...
View ArticleRedneck Investing
I was talking to my cousin the other day and bragging to him about how I own part of Tata Motors so I decided to check in on my investments......steel yourself against the shock you are bound to...
View ArticleFord 601 Workmaster
I sometimes tell folks (with respect to my tractor) that owning this particular old tractor involves an hour or so in the shop spent tinkering with it for every hour spent in the field operating it. In...
View ArticleFinito
Back when we were certifying as foster parents, our "qualification" paperwork required a lot of responses regarding any "losses" that we may have felt over the years. The concept of a "loss" was new to...
View ArticleMystery Cat
A couple of weeks ago upon our return from a trip to San Antonio, we noticed that our black/white cat was missing. It wasn't unexpected since we seem to go through cats fairly regularly around here....
View ArticleEl Gato Prieto
Summer left suddenly and I did not mourn it today. This morning 10 yards of dirt/sand mix were delivered by a friend of mine to back fill around our foundation (a lender-required repair) and Luis and I...
View ArticleBookends
I never thought I would have been able to say this. In fact, if you told me ten years ago (or even just five) that I would be able to say this, I would have said you were crazy. Yet, here I am and...
View ArticleMy Beans Runneth Over
I just sent this email out to the Ashurst family:Well, we are scheduled to fly out on December 30th. It will (I'm sure) be major fiasco with a huge load of luggage and three unruly kids. Last time we...
View ArticleThe 'Rents
Had a busy Saturday:Luis and I set up all the cabinet drawers/doors in the basement of mom's office building in a storage unit and got the primer sprayed.Back at home, the ladies made a mess of the...
View ArticleThe ugly stages of construction
These pictures are from the 27th. I am a few days behind (the granite countertops actually went in yesterday) Luis surveys the texture that is going onto the wall:Divert your eyes from the disaster in...
View Article....more construction
Saturday was very productive. We actually took the kitchen from a major construction area back to where it is actually usable as a kitchen and the living room is cleared of all clutter and is usable as...
View ArticleBlogging & a micro-update
I haven't been blogging lately. I guess I have been kinda feeling like blogging is too narcissistic (even though deep down inside, there is also a part of me in there thinking about how much I enjoy...
View ArticleThe Farmer Goes Dutch
It is now something like 11:30am local time.I just woke up and my body has no idea what is going on.The last 24 hours (or so?) have been a real whirlwind and I really have very little concept of how...
View ArticleBack to School
It is something like week three of the MBA program and it actually amazes me what a whirlwind it has been. I've been going to class in the morning on my "bromfietz" (a Tomos brand 50cc moped that is...
View ArticleNew IPhone = Pictures
A new friend sold me a jailbroken Iphone for 60 Euro (jailbroken means I can just stick a regular prepaid SIM card in it without buying into a contract.) That means I now have a camera!The cool tunnel...
View ArticleDutch Sunday
This is the view from the window of the chapel in the church here. Right now church is held in an office building -they say they are going to break ground for a new building right down the street from...
View ArticleRottemeren Fort
Since I had the week off, and since the kids have a 1/2 day each Wednesday, I took them out to build a fort in the forest between here and Rotterdam.There were dead branches ALL over the place so it...
View ArticleDutch Hinges
Not sure why, but sometimes the Dutch like to have their hinges on the wrong side of the door (ie, the hinges to an entry door are mounted on the outside of the house - creating a situation where a...
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