New Potatoes!

 On the table Saturday night as creamed potatoes and peas.

Weekend Steam II: Livi B. Railroad

Another great pick from Merle! Thank You, Sir!

 "The Livi B. Railroad is located in Willow Glen, CA and is the creation of Evan Bautista (@trainbuilder on YouTube) and named after his daughter. It consists of 250 feet of track, part of which is permanent and part of which is laid for each operating session. The sharpest curve is around 13ft radius. A short wheelbase 0-4-0 porter live steam locomotive built by Ken Roeh is the motive power, along with three flat cars built by Evan, using Steve Easlon trucks. Known as 'The Guy with the Train" around the neighborhood, Evan has given rides to hundreds of kids during Halloween."

Weekend Steam: Waverly, The Only Seagoing Paddle Steamer!

 Thank You, Merle, this is great!

Wheat Harvest 2023

 The weather has been good, and it looks like a good crop. Our farmer will have this knocked out quickly and then he will plant second crop beans. Susan got a ride in the combine again this year. You have to use the steering wheel only when turning around, and the computer in the big machine keeps track of everywhere it's been.

Softhearted

 These little guys can devastate a garden, but we keep most of them out with our welded wire fence. Susan runs the little ones out every morning by taking Vinnie to the garden with her. We seem to have an abundance of rabbits this year, and I think it is because we have a big brush pile on the edge of the yard. We need to burn it and have a wienie roast, but I don't want to kill rabbits by burning them. I think we can bust the pile up with the loader on the tractor, and run the rabbits out, then burn a section at a time.

We hear out barred owls out in the timber, but they haven't been hanging around the yard so far this summer. I have found the remains of rabbits disassembled by our owls, but not lately.  Evidently they are finding enough to eat in the woods. We haven't seen any coyotes lately around the yard. Today I think I heard a fawn being killed by a coyote on the other side of the pond. It had been bleating for its mother, then I heard three dying bleats, like you would blow on a varmint call to bring in predators. Prey animals mustn't give themselves away.

The past few winters I have worked on the raccoon population at the farm, and although we still have too many coons, this year for the first time ever we have pileated woodpeckers nesting in the woods at the farm. That is pretty neat. Life is the best gig going, but it is never a sure thing.

Tuesday Torque, Continued!

 It is a brief appearance, but our 9 HP Economy is there at 15:35, for a few seconds. Gary ran a full tank through it on Saturday. It is now back in the barn.

Tuesday Torque: Evansville SIAM Show Highlights

 Susan and I did not go, but there are a few videos up now of last weekend's gas and steam show. This one is decent, even if they didn't show our 9 HP moonshine engine!

Munch, Munch

 

Back To The Old Grind!

Weekend Steam III: Get Thee To Ely, Nevada!

 Many Thanks to Merle for spotting this railway getaway on Facebook. I could spend a few days there enjoying the sights and sounds. CLICK FOR LINK.

Weekend Steam II: Firing Up The Fitchburg Northern Locomotive

 Here's a good one that the kid sent to me for our viewing pleasure. Many Thanks, Zeke!