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Tag Archives: Life
Farming: Life and death and farming
I can’t think of many other places where the drama of life and death unfold with such breathtaking regularity as they do on the farm . Today, I had to help a cow give birth to a calf that was too big for her and got hung up on her hip bones as it was […] Continue reading
Farming: 2010- A beer odyssey
Here’s one for the “checking something off of life’s list” category: today, at long last, I purchased the supplies necessary to form the beginnings of what I hope to be my long endeavor with brewing beer myself.
Fortunately for me, and for Dayton, the owner of Belmont Party Supply in East Dayton has made starting this endeavor […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged beer, Beer Garden, Equipment, Experiments, Farming, Life, Self-sufficiency
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Farming: Never again
I went to the stock auction today because Keba and I hauled our calves there over the past couple of days and I wanted to see for myself what their business was all about.
I will never take my animals there or buy animals from them again.
We took nine perfectly healthy, vibrant young calves to that […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Animals, Control, Cows, death, Farming, humane, Life, Morality, revolutions, stock yards
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Write what you know
Worldview is a lot of things, but more than anything else it has been a place where I can write about the things I am thinking with regard to a variety of topics. Recently, that broad swatch of focus has … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Weblogs, Writing
Tagged change, Choices, experience, Life, Outcomes, Thinking, Writing
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Freedom
It’s all in your head (via xkcd, one of my favorite online comics): Sure, there are practical limits to what we can do, especially when our actions affect others or when they require great amounts of effort, but almost everything … Continue reading