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Matt says it’s time to put some beef on this here blog, but I’ve just got too many cute pig pictures to share! This is the litter that was born last Friday. How cute and shiny are they?! And I … Continue reading →

Holy cow, er, pig! Yesterday’s post was my 500th! As a “Happy Blogiversary” gift, would anyone still reading this little blog please leave a comment? Here’s the very first post. Some other favorite posts from 2004 & 2005. I’ll post … Continue reading →

The 6-week-old piglets have had free range of the farm, and you just never know where you’re going to spot them…out in the pasture, in the corn crib/chicken coop, in the corn field. Matt got a pen built for them … Continue reading →

Breakfast of champions – a Sugar Creek Farm breakfast sausage patty topped off with homemade syrup 🙂 Just a quick product update: Chickens are sold out for the year! I only had about 29 extra’s out of 146. I took … Continue reading →

Duddy A friend of ours invited Olivia on a trail ride this past Saturday, out at his in-laws’ farm. Sounded nice. Just so happened that the guy who sold us Star had mentioned the week before that he had another … Continue reading →

The kids had the day off school today so I took the day off, too, and we hit the Appleberry Farm to pick some apples. Appleberry is just west of Marshalltown, which is a couple of hours south of us. … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon’s task was to sort 5 pigs… from a pen of 14…right after a heavy rain. And not just any 5 pigs. The 5 Chester Whites of the bunch. It was a little hard to tell which ones were … Continue reading →

one brussel sprout at a time. Well, that may be a bit grandiose. But this quote from Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” (which I just finally started reading) really floored me: “If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a … Continue reading →

Double digits. Our middle child. (What will that come to mean in the future?) The loudest child at home, but very very quiet anywhere else. The “horse person” in the family. She’s teaching us about them. Straight A’s so far … Continue reading →

Travelling again, for work this time. Just had to try out this airport wireless thing with my new laptop 🙂 This has been quite the year of travel for me. Ready to stay home for (quite) a while. It’s definitely … Continue reading →