Author: Nuttygrass

I'm a nut and grass farmer, EMT, Firefighter, and world traveler. I love a good laugh and a great adventure!

Walking Fields in January

It’s been a cold week here in Oregon, temps down into the 20’s and 30’s (which for those of you who are used to this weather…sorry but we are wussy here in the Pacific Northwest!) So at the moment I’m doing a lot of “fun” paperwork, and we’re working on many shop projects.  However this doesn’t mean that the crops aren’t needing any care this time of year, even frozen plants warrant a looking at.

So while walking clover fields yesterday, here is what I found…

2013-01-13_16-46-23_549A pretty even growing field of crimson clover…with some volunteer wheat which looks like this…

2013-01-13_16-46-34_743A volunteer crop is something that grows from last year’s crop.  Last year this field was winter wheat and that is what is coming back from seeds that weren’t picked up by the combine.  Here is another weed that we dont want to keep…

2013-01-13_16-46-42_199We use specific crop herbicides that will kill off grass, unwanted weeds & wheat, but not damage any of the crimson clover plants.  Pretty awesome crop management tools!  Once this cold front blows through I’m hoping to be able to get out into the field and kill off the volunteer crop and any other small weeds that are popping up.

Hope everyone stays warm this week!!

A walk with the Dogs

I’m kind of liking the idea of a “Photo Friday” to spread out the blog’s posting a bit during the week.  So here you go, my second photo Friday.  This week…walking the dogs on our new farm we just purchased.  So many new things to explore for these life long farm dogs!

2013-01-06_15-30-28_864Yukon was clearly in the lead, you can barely see him up ahead.  Diesel and I were doing a more thorough investigation of things, that’s why we were behind!

2013-01-06_15-37-42_974Then we found the water, for this old hunting dog he couldn’t be happier!

734234_10100129825330899_1355140697_nWe had to keep telling Yukon to wait, he was already running back up the hill after smelling all he could down below.

304528_10100129889711879_1499103510_nWalking the boys…is probably the best thing I get to do everyday!

Funny Country Moment

I was sitting at a stop sign the other day, heading to town off of my small country road. It one of those stop signs that never really gets any traffic so you usually (don’t tell the cops) roll through the thing. Instead I saw headlights so I stopped completely. And waited for FOUR, yes I repeat FOUR cars to drive through the intersection. Now this might not seem like anything crazy and out of the blue, but then I heard my first reaction in my head and I had to laugh, “Holy cow what is with all this traffic?!”

It made me laugh the moment the thought came to me. Here I am Miss “Lived in LA for 4 years, drove through rush hour traffic to get to work everyday” and I’m shocked at four cars heading through an intersection at one time. The first thing it did was make me appreciate this country life I came home to after LA, and the second thing it did was made me realize that I’m so lucky to only have to wait for four cars at the end of my road, I think this country girl is home to stay 🙂

Happy Monday everyone!!