A very intense storm went through West Michigan on Tuesday evening just after 9 PM, and knocked out power to tens of thousands of households across Michigan – 27,000 of them in Kent County alone, and about 140,000 across all of Michigan. Thankfully we have a generator, so our power was back on in less…
Mid afternoon yesterday the distant sound of a diesel engine alerted me that someone had decided it was time to cultivate the large corn field behind our house. This field was last cultivated in almost the depths of Winter on 21 December 2009 – see this post for images of the 4″ thick ice that…
We live in farming country, with our property almost bordering a very large field/paddock. (See https://lisaandroger.com/2009/05/our-farming-neighbours/). Today as I went by I noticed a flock of large white birds circling over the corn field – turns out they were swans. shows a shot of the nearest pond, with Mallard ducks, Canada geese and the white…
Well it was just a three weeks ago that our “neighbours” arrived with the giant green combine harvester on tracks and harvested the corn from the field out behind our property. Today they’re back with a giant tractor cultivating the mud, dirt, water, ice and snow. Pictures below.
We live adjacent to a large field that is planted in either corn or soy beans each summer. I don’t know who owns the ground, nor who does the planting and harvesting, but they sure have access to some very large machinery. At the end of November we got an inch of rain over Thanksgiving,…
We’re lucky enough to live “in the country” and so one of our neighbours (our properties touch corner to corner) is a large field of about 70 acres that is used by a local farmer to grow one of corn, soybeans or wheat each year. After the corn had been harvested in 2007, a very…
Some photos of the large tractor and haybaler that worked in the field neighbouring our property in 2007 and 2008. Click the image to open a larger view.