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shining water

Posted: Saturday, May 27th, 2006 in family, land stewardship | 5 Comments »

We have company coming in for the long weekend. Mike and family are driving down from the Kansas City suburbs. Like many others this holiday, we expect to spend a lot of time outside grilling burgers.
We will go to the lake, which they haven’t seen before. I am always interested to see the reaction […]

channels

Posted: Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 in land stewardship | 4 Comments »

The cabin is on top of the bell-shaped curve that describes the profile of our property. Actually it is right at the point of the curve where it suddenly changes from being a gentle curve to being a plummeting curve.
The cabin is not built up very high off the ground and when […]

watershed

Posted: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006 in land stewardship | 6 Comments »

We finally got some rains this past week. We got out to the property on Saturday afternoon when the rain was still falling.
In profile our property is shaped much like the right-hand side of a bell curve. Near the top, the land is almost flat. There are places where it […]

forestry project illustrated

Posted: Monday, January 9th, 2006 in land stewardship | 6 Comments »

When I wrote about my “reforesting” project a couple weeks ago I had several requests for photos. I agree it was a little hard to paint a picture just with words. The photo above shows the middle part of the area that the previous owner cleared for a horse pasture. It’s about a […]

the new year

Posted: Sunday, January 1st, 2006 in land stewardship | 4 Comments »

“.. morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs”

 

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