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Early morning digging

Ryan Kraeger

Adam and Ryan got out onto the pasture this morning, digging trench for the irrigation system that still needs to go in.

28° out, the ground was quite frozen, and of course it was a little over an hour before sunrise.

But you dig when you have the time, not when the weather cooperates.

Besides, once you have dug about 20 feet in this rock strewn soil, you get warmed up plenty. You end up shedding a layer or to.

Got about 70 feet completely dug before the sun came up.

Chickens. Don’t care how cold it is, they want to get out on the pasture.

Sunrise picture taken on the way home.

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"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought." From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".

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