Albertan, girl dad, Farmer (cow/calf), Oilfield/pipeline welder, Husband to @jac_wolf_3
Spruce View, Alberta
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Not sure if I should be thankful for this opportunity to fence the muskeg or upset because I have to.
I know somewhere there’s a bunch of mushroom stacked bales fenced in with high tensile wire.
So yeah, forgive me if I don’t give a shit what the stock market it doing, I have bigger things keeping me up at night.
Americans voted for them dagum socialists and now they aren’t gonna get their $5000 payment from the gov
What is happening with futures you ask? Well we are selling steers in 8 days, sorry everyone.
Also, we are still waiting for Trump to say something idiotic like he always does right before we sell cattle.
Plow and power harrow this spring. Spike now. Vibrashank next spring.
#mintill #regenerative
4 year old sees the fendt dealership “oh is that where we are going to look at equipment dad?”
Oh sweetie, no…
Me running a shovel for 15 minutes a time yesterday after playing drop in hockey the night before…
The Sodbuster’s Widow Fence. Custer County, Nebraska. 1887. No trees on the prairie. No wood for fences. So homesteaders cut the sod itself — 3 feet thick, roots like rope. Built fences from earth.
Ole and Brita Hansen came from Norway in 1883. 160 acres. Dugout home. 2 boys.
In ’86, a blizzard took Ole. Froze 200 yards from the door. Brita was 31. Alone. Pregnant. Law said: “Improve the land or lose it.” That meant 10 acres broke, a house, and a fence. She had no horse. No man. No money. So she built a fence from sod. She cut it with a spade. 14 inches wide. 4 inches thick. One brick at a time. 160 rods — 1/2 mile. 2,640 bricks.
She laid them while 8 months pregnant. Gave birth in the dugout. Boy named him Ole. Then she went back to the fence. The land agent came in ’88. Saw the fence. Saw the baby. Saw 12 acres broke with a hand plow she pulled herself. He signed the deed. Wrote in the margin: “She proved up.” That sod fence stood until 1942. Kids in Custer County called it “Brita’s Wall.” Her grandson still farms the place. He won’t plow that half-mile.
