Kansas Hail Storm

Posted on July 30, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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We have had the “pleasure” of many trips across I-70 this summer.  I use the quotes because it seems that KS weather along I-70 is nearly always lousy.  I mean no disrespect to KS, but that corridor really doesn’t make me long for KS.  We encountered strong winds on most trips, some thunderstorms and even a nearby tornado.  However, the most exciting was easily the hail storm that my son and I drove through.

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Ah vehicles and our good friend Murphy

Posted on July 22, 2014 by | 4 comments

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Last Thursday, the family all headed down to Trinidad, CO (sex change capitol of the US… who knew?) to pick up a small horse trailer.  We had been looking in Colorado Springs and Denver, but apparently July is the hot month for buying horse trailers.  So, we ended up making the longer drive.  We weren’t too upset since it was a nice little outing for the whole family.  Thanks to my friend Erika for encouraging me to get a crew cab pickup!  We arrived without a hitch around noon, so the kids talked us into eating at Sonic.  Certainly not our first choice, but this was Trinidad, remember.  😉  After lunch, we met the seller, Mike, at McD’s.  He said he’d lead us to his ranch because there were some gates to open.  Never did we expect to find a gated community of ranches!  The gates to open were the gate to the area and a gate on his driveway.

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Why would you quit your job and move to MO?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by | 8 comments

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Numerous people have asked “why on earth would you leave your stable office job that pays well”?  Well… some things are hard to explain.  My best explanation is either mid-life crisis or temporary insanity.  Seriously though, it is really quite hard to explain and sometimes I’m not sure that we even really understand, but we somehow felt moved to do so.  Here are some of the things that went through our minds:

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Why MO?

Posted on June 10, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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People often ask us “why Missouri” or even more specifically, “why Ava, MO”?  This is something we’ve given a tremendous amount of thought to, but isn’t always easy to answer on the spot.  Here are some of our motivations:

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What are you doing?

Posted on June 1, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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One question that we get asked a lot is “so, what are you going to do here?”  On the surface, this seems like a simple enough question, but I often find myself struggling to answer it.  To a large extent, this is because “what we want to do” doesn’t fit any of the typical farming models.  We don’t want to just raise cattle, or veggies, or pigs.  We want to do all those and more.  This often leaves people with the conclusion that we really don’t have any idea what we are going to do.  Partly this is true, it is still forming, but we do have some rough ideas.  Here are some of the current thoughts:

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Finally doing it

Posted on April 18, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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After years of talking about it, we have finally decided to pull up stakes in CO and head east to water!  We have finally decided to move Mountain Acres Farm to Missouri!  We will be located near Ava, MO on an old dairy farm.  This farm hasn’t seen a lot of love for quite some time, so much work is needed on buildings and just general clean up.  There is a pretty decent farm house, an old milking parlor in need of some TLC, and several old barns in various states of disrepair.  Our hope is to save many of the buildings.

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