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Photo Friday May 17, 2013 “Storm Front”
You may have noticed a weather-related tilt to my recent posts. I guess that the changing of the seasons here in Nebraska along with the extremes we have seen mean that I am paying especially close...
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Extreme Gardening – Nebraska Edition
You have to be a special kind of person to garden in the Great Plains; stubborn yet flexible, optimistic but cautious. The weather changes rapidly and oscillates between extremes. Wind, heat, frost,...
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“Flyover” Photo Friday Nov 15, 2013
This is a photo my son took of some vintage planes doing a flyover at a Nebraska football game. Usually we only have time to get one or two photos of the flyover of Memorial Stadium, but these older...
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The Cows Came Home
All winter, the cows have been out on cornstalks. For those unfamiliar with Nebraska, cornstalks are what is leftover after a combine harvests the grain from a cornfield. The leaves and husks are good...
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Close Encounters Of the Tornado Kind
Crazy weather is nothing new for those of us that grew up or live on the Great Plains. I have written about tornadoes and temperature shifts on this blog. This summer has gotten off to a rather...
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Husker Baseball v Ohio State Buckeyes
As usual, the teenager refused to smile – but I think he had fun anyway. A week ago, my family and I journeyed down to Lincoln to watch our niece play in a volleyball tournament. While there, we also...
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May 18. Frost Advisory. Unhappy Gardener.
A tomato plant covered with a pop bottle. We take the lid off for daytime and remove the cover entirely when the weather gets hot. I have written in the past about extreme gardening in the Great...
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Flood Cleanup At the Ball Field – More Than Just Getting Ready For a Game
It has been a busy summer on the ranch. So busy, that I have not had time to sit down and write for a while. Three sons means that June is consumed with T-ball and baseball games. Except for that one...
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Garden Update: Invasion Of the Pumpkins
My garden tendencies are a matter of public record on this blog. Too much. Too close. Great ideas gone awry (not posted in previous stories to protect the innocent). I tried to behave this year. I...
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Avian Influenza, Toy Chickens, and County Fairs
You may, or may not, be aware that Nebraska is among the many states that was affected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Nationwide, around 47 million birds (chickens and turkeys) died...
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Blizzard February 2, 2016
We spent a lot of time last night bringing the cows home from their winter corn stalks and getting hay bales set out for them. Why? Because of winter storm “Kayla”, which was predicted to bring 8-12″...
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