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Been waiting for a post like this for a long time! That long tined buck is a BRUTE!

Well, Dawna has convinced me to give bees another try. We’re going to go about it a little different this time around. First of all, I’ve ordered a nuc locally this time, hoping to have bees better suited for our climate. Also, we’ve set up a swarm trap at Dawna’s folks. They have an active hive...

Very glad to see you begin a property journal! Can’t have too many Kansans posting on here, that includes you too Cat!! :)

I dropped some Wisconsin and Iowa acorns in tubes yesterday on the Massey. Silly me, I forgot to snap a pic or two. We have more sawtoothes in last year’s tubes off and running than I realized; which was a nice surprise.

With the alfalfa looking pretty good and cautiously anticipating a hay crop, the work has begun on the old New Holland swather.

Remedy, careful though, it will kill trees too. Spray the bb while they’re in bloom.

I have ordered some apple scions, I have harvested some myself, and the rootstock I ordered will be delivered in the next 2 weeks. I have one more question for you grafting guys: Do after grafting onto the rootstock, and applying the tape and grafting wax, can I immediately put the little trees...

I never thought I’d see the day I was forced to spray cheat in a field in FEBRUARY. :oops: Sprayed the alfalfa today… The big question is whether or not I’ll have to winterize the sprayer again and pull the pump?

Well, it has been a little bit of a slow shed season for us, but today marked our biggest find ever. It has been 8 years since we found our last 70” shed. The tall 10 that Dawna dubbed “Temptation” yielded his left side today. I was beyond excited to pick it up. This particular spot has some...

Picked up another yesterday, still a lot of bucks carrying, including another good 10. So we will continue to wait a while to go into the good cover.

The pic is kind of deceiving, it’s likely a young deer, around 40” antlers. It WAS a neat find though, I’ve found them close together before, but never right on top of each other.

Shed season is off and running. Not much walking yet, waiting for a couple more weeks for that. Easy match set here… And the official first of the year

Today and tomorrow some of this snow will melt off. Then this weekend it’s supposed to get cold again. If the forecast holds we will get back up into seasonal temps early next week — highs in low 40s and lows in 20s.

Deer are all over the lower barn plot. The clover seems to be what they’re really after. They are hitting the brassicas some too, but I messed up and over-seeded them this fall. The snow wasn’t stopping them…

I scooped a little snow yesterday afternoon at the head of our driveway; then brought the gravel up with the shovel just at the tire tracks the last 15’ or so. Our front wheel drive cars can make it out now and I don’t have to drive the Land Cruiser every day. With these temps, this snow isn’t...