A New Year
Well, we’ve had a chilly start to the new year. Its 1 above outside with a stiff wind that seems to suck the wood right up the stove pipe before it can burn and produce any heat. If the wind doesen’t blow its not hard to keep the shack warm, but when the wind blows….its a constant battle to keep it above 50 inside. I try to cheer up the family by reminding them that its 50 degrees warmer than it is outside……soooo realativly speaking the house is warm. They don’t always buy it though. Last night, for the first time in a long time, I broke down and bought 10 gallons of fuel and dumped it in the old furnace we kept for back up. It helped keep us warmer but also cost us $35. I finally cut up the last deer, made lots of breakfast sausage out of this one. We have a good stash of venision in the freezer now, that should help stretch the beef out a little longer. I spent New Years Eve splitting wood. Thats an old tradition of mine, not splitting wood but working. My old freind Ethan and I used pitch calf pens every New Years Eve. We didn’t have lights on the tractor but used our coon huntin’ headlamps spreading load after load into the wee hours of the morning. Yah, I know, kind of weird. What can I say, I’ve always been a little different. We used play Hank Sr tapes all night as we worked, comemorating the night that Hank died in a car crash. Yup, we were weird kids alright. New Years day was spent splitting wood as well, never was the kind of guy that saw a new year as an exuse to lay around and be lazy.
The new Frontier Freedom magazine is out. I have a short article on how to plant Wide Row Beans.
You can now download all the Plain Talk Recordings for free. I’ve been listening to them, they are really good. Thanks Rick!
Pastor Tom sent me a jar of Missouri Mule Barbeque Sauce The stuff is great! If you like GOOD Barbeque Sauce, my advice is to order some now.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
It’s a little chilly here, too.
I have always planted my beans that way. It is the best way, I think. I like Roma II beans. They have wonderful flavor and they take a long time to get past good green bean stage. Nice article! 