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Here we are at the Obama rally in Grant Park.http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swfWe didn’t stay the whole time, just until the kids started getting sleepy and the crowds oppressive. What a night. We’re glad we made it.

Update: I had almost no line at my polling place. If I had asked for a paper ballot, instead of an electronic one I would have been in and out in less than 15. Still, I wasn’t there, line and voting more than 20 minutes. Considering that the iFarmer reported that at 6:15 a.m., afterContinue reading “Didn't Need All These Provisions After All”

I love it when other people do all the work and all I have to do is upload the pictures. Here’s a shot of the kitchen window at The Farm. Look carefully and you’ll see the pioneer-era hand drawn logs (8×12 black walnut) that frame the window. Yes, that’s the original log cabin beneath thatContinue reading “This House is Old”

Thanks to Matt, who’s doing PR for Chevron Delo’s FFA Tractor Restoration Competition, I now have before and after pix from the kids who competed this year. Amazing…check these out. Before:After, the 2008 individual winner, Matthew Dehlinger:Before:After, the winners from the Eufaula H.S. FFA:

Future Farmboy woke up this morning reminding us that this weekend has been set aside by our brothers south of the border as a time to remember loved ones and as a time to face our own mortality. [The powers that be aligned the holiday on Nov. 1 & 2 with All Saints Day andContinue reading “On Dias De Los Muertos: Oyster Stew for Omi”

I pulled together a happy hour this evening for new and old friends and whipped up some appetizers with a so-so Michigan cherry wine from Chateau de Leelanau. As part of the offerings, I served up my ham rolls, one of my favorites. But I didn’t realize until tonight that the iFarmer has long hadContinue reading “Good Friends, Not So Good Wine”

When was the last time you went to a funeral that ended with wild applause? I don’t think the honoree, Rev. Dana Ferguson, would have had it any other way. Just a few moments before the standing-room-only crowd (about 1,200 or 1,500) began clapping, there probably wasn’t a dry eye in the house. It’s justContinue reading “Saying Goodbye to Dana”

Good news 4-H Champ and anyone who was surprised by the FFAers who told my future farming kin in Indy last week that the FFA wasn’t about farming anymore and instead was about business (not even agri-business). Why would an FFA member deny farming and not even talk about agriculture to a group of would-beContinue reading “Whew. Turns Out the FFA is Still Very Much Into Farming”

Our prayers go out tonight for the family, friends, 4th Pres co-workers and the people touched by the faith, love and devotion radiated by Rev. Dana Ferguson. We were sad to learn today that Dana died Monday of heart failure brought on by complications from cancer treatments. She was only 42. Our hearts ache forContinue reading “Remembering a Light in the City”

I couldn’t resist. We call this one “Screech,” for obvious reasons.