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Sinking Feeling – Part 3

You can assume there is a portion of this story omitted – both in terms of storytelling form as well as keeping the bounty of expletives off the web (there’s enough of that out there anyhow). I mean – how can you blame me – watching my tractor and truck both sinking into a brown [...]

Sinking Feeling – Part 2

(part 1 here)I mean – there’s stuck… and then there’s really stuck… and then there’s the state my cousin once used to describe 4 wheel drive – “A technology that enables a person to get so far from civilization that the hole they get themselves stuck in hasn’t even been discovered yet”. And [...]

Sinking Feeling – Part 1

It’s been a bit since the last post… I think I have been stuck in a bit of a rut… (ahem)What happens in the spring when you get an overly ambitious, cooped up, cabin fever aspiring small scale farmer… a tractor with 4 wheel drive… a mushy field… and a ground [...]

Broke!

It’s a scary testimony to the times in which we live – with a title tag like that, the mind pretty readily heads towards financial peril. So far we are weathering that storm as well as anyone can expect… no, what I’m talking about is one of my lift pins for the disk/drag. [...]