This guy isn't me. But he could be. I've got a lot of "wild acres" like him that I'm leaving that way. 

Why this Saskatchewan farmer is letting his land grow wild 

Again With The Garden

 Been hot and dry but the garden is hanging in there surviving on moisture reserves from all the rainfall in June and early July. New potatoes are great and had the first new tomato today. Even got inspired to pick a pail of Saskatoons since they are the best crop in years. Mosquitoes are terrible though. 

A Thousand Words

 An old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words comes to mind. I guess a video might be worth even more so here is a July garden update from my yt channel in which I hopefully explain what is going on around here. As usual time is passing in fast forward as I attempt to keep up. 

Lazy Blog Post

 I've been too lazy (busy) to put much on the blog since spring planting finally got started here. Late start means late finish and it was the sixth of June before I did finish. Just with a day or two to spare before the rains made it too wet to get in the field. Now spraying to do and every day that passes is going to make that operation late too. A good inch and a half in the past 24 hours but at least no hail or flooding or tornadoes like some got. 

The vegetable garden is doing pretty good in spite of my neglect. Did some video updates and put a new one on the channel. 

Slow Spring

 Spring slowly moving here but I still found a few snowbanks in the bushes yesterday. Surprisingly wet areas in the field are keeping me from starting in with anhydrous applicating. Took the easy way to check out the North end of the home quarter on Wednesday. From 150 something feet up you can really see how much water is out there. I hear it is a lot worse about an hour North of me. 

April Snow

No its not unusual to get snow in April but this one on the 16th feels like just another 2 steps backwards after the one step forward of a few days ago. Such a nice day I was inspired to fire up the old Mustang from it's winter hibernation and take a short drive on the relatively dry roads. Today it looks like I'll need to shovel snow,, maybe get out with the tractor and blade on the driveway to move the snow so it does not melt into the road and create more mud. 

 

Alf's Barn

 Still plenty of deep snow in the fields here on April 6 but its frozen hard enough I can walk on top of it so ventured over to "Alf's barn" to check out the inventory. Its in sorry shape today but for a log building put up in 1907 its not surprising. I can remember my dad using it for grain storage in the 1960s even though most of it dirt floor. After that it was useful junk storage. 

Built of poplar logs by Metis (Robillards) for my great uncle. The story is that there were no poplars big enough locally to make good logs so these were hauled from many miles North out of the Touchwood hills. 

I thought this view of the log wall and door was kind of "artistic" so clipped a screen shot out of the video I made for youtube. 

Interesting story there is that great Uncle Alf was found dead in front of that door in January of 1943 at about the same age I am now and was frozen stiff by the time his brother discovered him. Less than a quarter mile away. They said that they noticed his dog howling and that alerted them something was wrong.