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Our farm is located in
North Louisiana. It's five hundred acres of
beautiful, productive land. The farm is mostly in crops, but we have
some in woodlands and some in pasture, in addition to the home site. |
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Pictures
taken April 2006 |
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This is our front yard
from the side of it. You can see the front of our house and the old
barn, too. |
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The old barn
in the front pasture built in the early 1890's. |
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Another view
of the front pasture. |
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Our neighbors on both
sides are fantastic. Here's a view of the pasture that we share with
our neighbors to the north. The nearest part is ours and the rest theirs,
but all our horses live together there. |
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Another
pasture view |
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The view from behind
the old pecan orchard facing up towards the side yard. John has been
clearing this and we plan to fence it in
for the horses one day. |
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This field isn't far
from the house either. We planted the back part of it in hardwoods and native grasses. I'll take
pictures of that, too, once it's established. We started the year with plans
to increase the acreage that was irrigated and to put some more of the land
into hardwoods. |
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Pictures
taken November 2006 |
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This is the larger of
two fields that we recently had irrigated. This picture shows part of
where the pipe was buried. |
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I took these pictures
of John and Ross visually surveying the completed installation. |
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Pictures
taken January 2007 |
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By January the wheat
was coming up and getting pretty. It certainly wasn't in need of
irrigation. Not yet, anyway! |
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This is another field
that has just been irrigated. It's on the south side of the
house. The first two pictures are from the front side, by the road and the third is
from the back
towards the road. |
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This is a picture of
one of the wheat fields on the west side of the road. There's
woodlands and more wheat behind it. To the north of it is a lot of
woodlands. |
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There's a creek that
runs through the farm. We enjoy it, but we used to
have beaver problems here. They were decimating the woodlands and
flooding the cropland. We removed them from the farm and we no longer have
these problems. |
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Picture
taken January 17, 2007 |
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One of the
wheat fields on a frigid morning. |
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Picture
taken March 21, 2007 |
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A panoramic
picture of a portion of one of the wheat fields. |
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Click on it
to see it full sized. (95KB) It's worth it! |
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Pictures
taken April 2007 |
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We've been getting to do a lot of clearing by the farm
house and expanding the yard. John has been working hard at it and it
shows! |
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Notice: Our property is posted. |
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trespassing, hunting, fishing or trapping allowed. |
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