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“I discovered these common, self-imposed restrictions are rather insidious, though they start out simple enough. We begin by worrying that we aren’t good enough, that we’re not smart enough or talented enough to get what we want. And then we voluntarily live
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“What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn’t worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs
I keep trying to get up to speed on raising crops, but something always gets in the way. I hope that Wally and I can get a dent in getting ready to put crops in this weekend. He does not have to
Yesterday morning I was able to milk three (and a little bit of the fourth) goat without a foot ending up in the bucket. The fourth goat is hard to milk due to short teats and since she’s still got twins on
Earl Lauer Butz (July 3, 1909 – February 2, 2008) was a United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs,
I’ve had two mornings now of milking all four goats. One, Kaianna (a/k/a Chili Pepper) is really hard to milk. She’s got a high, tight udder with small teats. She gives a lot of milk. She’s a bit hateful too. The other three, Willow,
I am about ready to get back in the saddle again. I fell off last week, was it just last week? It seems like an eternity ago now that Penny went down. If you read the history of Spellcast Farm, you will
It has not been a banner four days. Wednesday evening at around 9:30 Penny had her calf: a heifer! That was very exciting. They both seemed fine so we elected to leave them together overnight. Around 5 AM Wally went down with
Two weeks ago now, I wrote a second exercise for the newspaper I was published and have not heard back on it. I followed up a week later, but nothing. I am not sure why. Perhaps he felt that my summarization of