Kate Palmer

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Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Kate.

This is our water. Once it melts we have no way of storing it. That means after the fourth of July, we can’t water our crops. How many of you stop watering your gardens or yards at the height of summer heat? Eighty years ago a plan was established to remedy this situation. A storage [...]

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Spring Pasture

Posted on 22. May, 2010 by Kate.

It was a cold, blustery, rainy day. The cowgirls and cowboys saddled their horses amidst pelting rain and gusts of wind. I watched them leave, then stepped into my nice warm house. They herded the cows across sage brush and fields to their new spring pasture green with feed. I think the herd is pretty [...]

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How Revising Exposes Your Mistakes

Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Kate.

I’ve been struggling to revise my WIP (Work in Progress). Struggling as in where do I start? I see the problems, but how to fix them? Anonymous offered valuable feedback, but a gnawing feeling that I needed to delve more deeply into revisions persisted. So I began searching and reading. And then reworking and revising. [...]

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Moroni’s BBQ Turkey (but I used chicken)

Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Kate.

Moroni Feed Company is famous for its BBQ Turkey recipe for good reasons. This is one of the best ways to eat turkey. It’s even delicious served cold. Killer Beans are the perfect complement to this main dish. The store was out of turkey the Saturday night before our Spring break so I bought chicken [...]

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Hoop House (Part 2)

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Kate.

Well, it took two more evenings to complete the hoop house. First Nate cut a couple of PVC pipes into two foot lengths and glued them to the other pipes making them longer.
Next, he removed the twine from the four posts

and replaced it with this.
Then we attached short lengths of twine to one row of [...]

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Hoop House Part 1

Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Kate.

I blogged about the grow rack Nate built here. This is what our tomato and pepper starts looked like about two weeks ago. They’re bigger now. Originally, we had planned to transplant them into the hoop house in our garden on May 1. Mother Nature had different plans. We got part of the hoop house [...]

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Branding Calves

Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Kate.

It’s that time of year again. The time when we separate the calves from the mama cows.
Nate feeds the cows up the chute
where others stand ready to receive the calf.
These cowboys close the chute and turn it on its side creating a work table.
These gals keep track of how many males and females come through [...]

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