The Milkman Cometh
Was chatting with a friend the other day about how we could remember when milk, cheese and eggs—and Charles Chips potato chips—were all delivered right to our back door. That was, oh, so long ago…some of you, maybe most of you, probably don’t even remember such things. But once upon a time in America, milk delivery was part of our morning ritual. Today, Royal Crest Dairy in Colorado continues that tradition with home delivery throughout the Rocky Mountains. “We’ve got milkmen who’ve worked the same route for 25 years and families who’ve been with us for three or four generations,” notes owner Paul R. Miller in this month’s Country Living. I wish someone would bring back milk delivery in the Southeast. We’d sign right up!
Highlights: Labor Day Weekend
Butterfly watching
Fence painting
Hay cutting
Fire making
Pond trimming
Post hole digging
Dog wrestling
Puppy smooching
Dog chasing
And flipping
Worm Invasion!
THIS WEEK’S LESSON:
ARMYWORMS
So, in the last 48 hours two people have brought up the subject of armyworms with us. I had never even heard of them. But they took out a friend’s pasture in Hartwell, Ga., last week, and Allen, who manages our hay fields, lost 45 of his own acres to these destroyers.
Yesterday Allen came over and saw the first signs of armyworms in our front pasture (moths flying overhead…a little bald spot) and immediately spent the entire day cutting all the hay, which stops the worms’ progression immediately.
Out here on Our Green Acres,
we get by with a little help
from our friends.
we get by with a little help
from our friends.
Just checked into our Alabama office.
Hope your Labor Day holiday is a blast!
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