I have to confess that things have been so busy in recent months that I haven't been as diligent as I might at moving threads into the right places and tidying up the forum. But all that is changing! Over the next few days I will do a bit of housekeeping...

College life can appear just a bit strange sometimes when reflected on. Last week, for example, after an afternoon spent studying boar semen, and watching the sperm wriggle across the television screen linked to the microscope ("Make a good screen...

I had wrote a post but got so anoyed, went in a huff and deleted...why? I cant really remember! Anyway I'm alive and kicking and havent got a hoof print on my face however, i could see this equine/horsey milarkey being something of a future sport...

So much has happened!! I`ll start with the tractor.......It died after just 51hrs of working ownership, fortunately still under warranty. It has been away and has returned sounding loads better having had a lot of engine work done. I still feel a bit...

If the oven door was slightly open we found out that the cat even slept in the oven . But she soon found out that that was not a good place to be. The kitchen range was the main source of heat for the whole house and it also had a back boiler to heat...

It was my sons 5th Birthday last Saturday. He had a fantastic time, thanks in no small part to our local Ernest Doe and Sons. He wanted a tractor party, so in the best traditions of giving in to our children, a tractor party it was. But how? We don't...

I'm finding suddenly that there is a lot more academic work to do, and not only this, but the pressure has increased as well, due to the fact that every mark now counts towards my final degree. This is much more intimidating than the first year, when...

It's been a long time since i last posted and now the term is nearly over!!! (well 4 weeks left) so here's a bit of a catch up. The idea of coming to uni to have lectures seems to have escaped the clever people who produce timetables and courses...

I am in the very slim minority of American men who doesn't care much for football. I just don't get much out of it, I feel that way about most sports. However, when it comes to our high school team in both football and basketball, I do show some...

We had a Young Farmers meeting last night! Me and my otherhalf are ballroom dancing (I mean me, dancing....thats me prancing round in a suit with my size 11's (and a half). Then the worst part to come is, i am also getting roped into wearing a tootoo...

Another Veterans Day has come and gone, the parade in Emporia was cancelled because of wind and rain, I had thought I would go and snap a few photos to post. I also forgot to go by the cemetary(I went by twice, I forgot to stop and take a picture). As...

Mother always worked so hard, to rear her brood of kids, As we grew bigger and in our teens, we must have cost her quids, Back in the 1950's there were six of us to sit round the kitchen table for meal times, plus for a few years dads brother, uncle...

I've been reading the thread in talking point about the phyiscal fitness of farmers and find it very interesting. For years now I have struggled to explain to non-farmng friends how physically challenging farming is, I'm normally met with the...