Everything you want to know about Azure DevOps and Farming
March 9, 2018Mar 9, 201803/9/18After more than 23 years at Microsoft, I’ve decided it’s time for me to take a break. Starting March 12th 2018, I’ll be taking a leave of absence for a year. Deciding to do this has been one of the most gut-wrenching decisions of my life.
February 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18Let me start with a little background. Every year, we have new goats born on the farm – generally in March/April. Last year, we had about 10 or so. They live in the field with their moms until breeding season –
June 8, 2017Jun 8, 201706/8/17Spring is hay season and it puts a significant strain on my managing the balance between work and farm. For the past several weeks, I’ve been stealing away every spare minute I can to cut, rake, bale and haul hay. I’ve hayed about 75 acres and that yields one heck of a lot of hay.
May 3, 2017May 3, 201705/3/17You may have noticed I wasn’t very responsive during much of April. That’s because I took an extended “Farmcation” for about 3 weeks. I just returned to work on Monday and should be a bit more responsive now.
I won’t bore you with all the details but I wanted to share one thing.
March 30, 2017Mar 30, 201703/30/17Last week, we had some visitors from Redmond visiting us in North Carolina. I invited a few of them out to my house for dinner – they were interested in seeing this farm that I talk about from time to time.
September 28, 2016Sep 28, 201609/28/16Sorry for the back to back farm stories but I was relating the Fire! story to someone the other day and remembered another story I hadn’t shared.
As a cattle farmer, I go through a lot of hay – about 300,000 lbs per winter.
September 26, 2016Sep 26, 201609/26/16When you have a farm like I do, with a lot of pastures, a lot of fence lines and a lot of trees, you inevitably spend a lot of time clearing dead trees, fallen limbs, etc. from your fences and fields.
July 29, 2016Jul 29, 201607/29/16I apologize for being away for so long. It’s been a weird summer. I was out of the office for almost a month and have spent the last week furiously trying to catch up. So I’ve been absent from my blog for a while now.
December 23, 2015Dec 23, 201512/23/15For the past several months, friends have been bugging me to write another farm post – it’s been quite a while. The problem is that I haven’t been able to think of anything terribly interesting. Most farm work does make for a good blog post – chores,
August 19, 2014Aug 19, 201408/19/14Well, today was my turn to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. This morning I was tagged by both Adam Cogan and Scott Guthrie. Tempting as it is though, I’m not doing it twice I don’t know if it’s typical,
