>>>For those unfamiliar with pastoral activities, allow me to enlighten: I grew up on a farm, and can personally attest that most types of agriculture require close contact with dirt. Especially for the dry-land types of farming that produce most of the world’s cereal crop, a cloud of dust is the unavoidable consequence of preparing the land for planting. Even using the most modern and minimal cultivation techniques, it’s a grimy business.<<<
I can sure attest to that!
I think that these judges made a visit to Epcot and think that what they see during the days there is all that there is to Agriculture... Maybe they need to visit with the night shift and do some of the dirty work that is involved preparing the displays for viewing.
Yep, farming is dirty work, but the most fulfilling thing I think that anyone can experience.
Does this remind anyone else of that cartoon of the OSHA Cowboy from a few decades ago. Seat belt, training wheels, safety net, hard hat, face shield, even a built-in pooper scooper... Horse would have been immobile.
I am also reminded of the lawsuit against an Amish sawmill - seems someone bought a plot of land next to the mill and built a half million dollar home, then sued to try to keep the sawmill from making all those loud cutting noises...
Then there was a neighbor who had a 160 acre field with one single tree in the middle of it - since he was installing a circular irrigation system, he took his bulldozer out to remove the tree. Since the roots were pretty substantial, he had to cut a trench on one side of the tree to push it over. Then after he finished pushing out the tree, a thunderstorm came up, so he stopped the dozer and went to the house. Next morning when he went out to finish and fill in the trench, Natural Resources met him and prohibited him from filling in the trench... Since it had water puddle in it, they declared it a ‘wetland’ - It still stands there - one dip that maybe once a year holds a bit of water for a day or two... Since the trench is right where the wheels run, he has to run the irrigation system up to that point, then reverse and go back the other way, just like he did when the tree was there.
Now I hear that Maryland is trying to outlaw fertilizer and all chemicals for lawns and gardens... Say that since it is uncontrolled, it might run off into a creek and then into the bay...
OK, OK, I’ll quit... Hehehe Just that maybe my sensitive buttons get pushed and I can’t help myself... Seems to be happening more nowdays than it used to... LOL Øbama is just the latest part of it - it has been building for quite a while.
Oh yes! Those sensitive buttons. The city people who moved into our town and decided the church bells interrupted their sleep. I have heard those bells for 70+ years even from 3+ miles away. Love them, especially , the special Easter season ringing during the noon hour. Took several months to resolve that, but thank goodness the bells are still ringing on the hour weekdays and special music before services on Sunday.
Was invited to a round table discussion yesterday hosted by the local Historical Society as one of the few older natives left in our small town.(now, doesn’t that make me feel old?) After sharing old photos and memories with the members, the few of us “old folks” were asked what we missed most about our life years ago. I was quick to compare building our first home-living in the basement with an out house and gradually building a nine room house as we could afford it with no mortgage to building our current home, paying exorbitant permit fees and bowing to ridiculous demands, even to taking a few inches from our stair railing as it was too long. There were several town officials present and probably not happy with my opinion.
When we decided to build this home on the same property as our old home, we wanted to be nearer the river. Now in our town we can’t have anything closer than 150 feet of the river. No road, no screen house or any building. But across the river, in another town, the restriction is 50 feet, so those people can have even their homes very near the river while my screen house has to be over 150 feet away .
Yes, I could go on and on, and with Obama, I can look forward to many, many more rights taken away.
had water puddle in it, they declared it a ‘wetland’<<<<
Remember where you fired all the bullets in Yucca?
The last that I heard, they had declared that a Wetland!!!!
That has to be the driest part of our county.