Category Archives for Rural Life

Predator Party

June 11, 2013

It’s not good when there are predators that think your farm is a great place to party, mainly because cube graphicthey love the bountiful buffet.

No, not good at all.

“You don’t know what you have until its gone . . .”

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Spring, oh Spring, Where Art Thou?

March 26, 2013

The first day of spring has come and gone, and here we are with snow flurries!  The wind is wicked sharp, and it is cold, cold, cold!  I do not enjoy doing chores in this cold weather.  Even the animals were reluctant to come out of their sheds for food this morning!

However, there are still signs of spring if you look for them!

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The Farmer & Friends

March 12, 2013

This past weekend The Farmer was out doing chores.  Whenever he stops to rest, he gets company.  Usually it’s our farm collie, Toby, bugging him for a pet.  Lately, however, the neighbor’s dog has gotten in on the act.

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Check It Out! Our Small Farm Website Has a New Look!

February 18, 2013

Welcome to the “new look” for our website on rural life and living on a small farm.

In The Beginning There Was HTML

This is just the latest change of many since this small farm site started in 2002.  At first, RuralRamblings.com was a static website, using HTML pages and the help of FrontPage software.

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Winning The Pond Scum Battle

May 11, 2012

This is the 3rd Friday I’ve started to work on a post.  The previous two weeks I got interrupted and never got back to it.  Hopefully, I can get this done today!

Last time I posted, I showed you our scummy pond, and mentioned how The Farmer was working on getting it cleared up.  Well, look at it after he treated it with algaecide and it rained:

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