7 August 2013

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Sally Gerard

A calm and rainy day here, all grey and peaceful like. I wonder if Isa and her crew miss having weather aboard a star ship. Horses are dripping, but happy with no flies bothering. DSCN2880

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6 August

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Having a big bull elk blow through our pasture a couple nights ago, stampeded the heifers and both species seemed muddled with regard to the other. Is this how it is when humans meet other intelligent species in space? Certainly, the skunks, fox, badger, ground squirrels, snakes, antelope, deer and the plethora of avians never bother. The elk seemed out-of-place as I generally regard them as mountain creatures. The horses came in early and will get their feet trimmed today. Hope you like today’s photo just for fun–they are the Windows in the Loft!
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1 August 2013

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Sally Gerard

You never know what you’ll find in chokecherry season. As I picked along the chokecherry row, I discovered a bird’s nest with an egg in it just like the one I posted a while back that I found in the pasture. The horses worked cattle the other day–Indian loves to work! So, tomorrow, we’ll do it again. DSCN2872

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29 July

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Rain and fog have hung in on the farm for a couple of days and it has been such a relief. Some moisture and cool will let the grass grow some in the pastures. We moved cattle and put all the bellowing bulls together. The heifers have simply gone on as if the bulls were never there; the bulls continue to push each other around and sound like elephants. I think this would be the case no matter what planet they were on! The horses did a great job keeping all the cattle moving.storm

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24 July 2013

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Sally Gerard turns 50 today! Cake for everyone and homemade ice-cream too. Enjoy this photo of the birth of day in the deep winter here on the farm. Delicious. Winter Spring 2008 003

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a blast from the past

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Camp Creek Threshing show in Waverly, Nebraska provides a great glimpse into life as we knew it a hundred years ago. Their grounds host hundred year old stationary engines that provided power for rural folks before electricity, horse drawn plows and mowers working in the field, butter churning, wheat threshing and grinding, corn shellers and so much more! What a great way to spend the weekend with family, friends, and so much activity!

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17 July

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Another shot from last weekends dip into antique farming. Heading to the Camp Creek Threshing show in Nebraska where they’ll have horse driven farming demonstrations too. I know Isa Torunn would love it! She’d be right in there wanting to know how to do it. 042

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binding

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Sally Gerard

We bound wheat this weekend the way that wheat used to be gathered before there were self-propelled combines. The binder, hooked to an antique tractor, cuts the wheat and puts a string around each bundle as it is kicked out the side. Once all the wheat is cut and bound, then shocks are built with the wheat bundles to dry and finally picked up with bundle forks and loaded on a bundle wagon (hay rack). It is great fun and the wheat bundles will be stored until they are threshed with an Oliver Red River Special. The picture is from a previous year. And hey, keep spreading the word about my novel, Windows in the Loft, and remember that it is in the Kindle store now and will be out in paperback next month!
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Stars beyond counting

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Looking at the stars last night with lighting playing in and around them, it struck me how beautiful it must be from space. Isa, in Windows in the Loft, explores space after leaving her home planet. But her love of the stars came from views similar to the one I had last night. Beautiful, stunning, gorgeous!Image

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6 July

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Sally Gerard

Yes, a heifer. She has read Windows in the Loft and wonders why the milk cows in the beginning don’t get any more page time! Cows are funny.
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