Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Grabbing Shade

 


14 comments:

  1. Always wondered if the rolled hay was better than the bales. How does one store rolled hay so that it does not get mold verse the barn storage for bales.

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    1. Stack 'em in the barn, just like square bales would be.
      (use the loader on the front end of the tractor, with a fork or spike to lift them up.). Any hay bales can mold, if baled too wet. The trick with cutting, baling hay is keeping the leaves on (Alfalfa), where the highest protein resides, and curing it without molding it.

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  2. Everything is bigger in Texas, even the snails.

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  3. A rare sighting of two of the reclusive Great Plains Horned Grass Snails in the daylight. They are the main ingredient in Escarbuck, a French delicacy served with lemon-caper butter.

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  4. Love it here. So much to learn from balel preservation, to cuisine, to the smarts of your followers.

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  5. I have never witnessed a "snail deer" before.

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  6. I'd like to see one of those jump over a fence...

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    1. They can do it, but veeeeeeery sloooooowly.

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  7. The snail trails must be massive.

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  8. was raised and raised my family on Venison. One day, I had an allergy test - I'm allergic to Venison. That explained the gas, loose bowels, headaches, after eating it. No matter how we prepared, canned, cooked, BBQed, same reaction. None of my 8 kids, nor wife ever suffered from those effects.

    When I told my older brother, who also had the same problem(s), "Oh, I was told the meat is SO RICH...!" Back to Beef for both of us.

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  9. Yess s s s s, Cargo moves slowly across the Great Plains

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  10. escargot, but giant, need bushels of garlic and butter

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