Today in Pictures

[agstar77]

Update on cherries.

[furrowtickler]

Small pocket still hanging in there well considering

[furrowtickler]

Smoke , mist , high humidity helping a lot the past few days here without question

[sumdumguy]

I love this smoke, better than dry roasting. And sour cherries here have bugs, several in every cherry.

[foragefarmer]

Ya that’s our real world shop , 90 years old , set up 35 years ago very cheap
could use a $500,000 shop now but unfortunately crops here have been too variable the past 10 years to consider one yet .
someday hopefully before I retire lol

Obviously you seen the potential.

That's the key in most cases with anything in life, along with simple common sense and any government involvement in your business.

[blackpowder]

I ain't gonna argue over an old barn.
And I didn't take offence to anything either.
It was built cheap and it paid itself off to 2 owners.
The 1908 house and the poplar log blacksmith shop (both built cheap) went in the 80s. And the first barn. I'm sure the sod dugout went in 1908.
Nothing on a Western farm was the Notre Dame.
Support your local public museum.
Farmer built foundation construction has come a long way.
I have maintained well and still wore out machinery.
I paid my Dad's mortgage off the year he died.

One grandfathers barn built 60s, abandoned in the middle of nowhere.
The other tinned with cash and never to be used again by the silver spoon inheritors.
Meh.

[blackpowder]

Agstar.
I have lost all my stone fruit trees to Black knot.
Are you seeing it there?

[agstar77]

Agstar.
I have lost all my stone fruit trees to Black knot.
Are you seeing it there?

NO problems here.

[blackpowder]

There's the hay forks and trolley.
And an old JD horse plow from a yard site I buried.
The 830 I drove as a kid and was our main tractor until 81.
Thinking I'll sell it too before I get much older.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Ya that’s our real world shop , 90 years old , set up 35 years ago very cheap
could use a $500,000 shop now but unfortunately crops here have been too variable the past 10 years to consider one yet .
someday hopefully before I retire lol

Isn't that the ultimate irony of our business. When we're young starting out doing all our own fixing on old crap, it's outdoors in all weather, with none of the right tools.

By the time an operation can afford the big shop and all the right tools, it's late model equipment, and hiring someone else to do the fixing. By that time, the shop is a place to store the toys and maybe polish some paint.
At least that has been my observation.

That pattern seems to hold true with so many things in life.

[furrowtickler]

Obviously you seen the potential.

That's the key in most cases with anything in life, along with simple common sense and any government involvement in your business.

You mean no government involvement in your business right?
cause any government involvement means a train wreck 99% of the time

[blackpowder]

Isn't that the ultimate irony of our business. When we're young starting out doing all our own fixing on old crap, it's outdoors in all weather, with none of the right tools.

By the time an operation can afford the big shop and all the right tools, it's late model equipment, and hiring someone else to do the fixing. By that time, the shop is a place to store the toys and maybe polish some paint.
At least that has been my observation.

That pattern seems to hold true with so many things in life.

Too right.
"We'll finish the basement or quonset when the house or quonset paid for"
By that time you don't need or want to be in either lol.