I was playing around on the web and decided to go to twitter’s website to check trending topics — I saw too many Chuck Norris tweets and having bought a Chuck Norris book for last year’s office Christmas party exchange, I just had to know. When I logged in… the number of zeros popped up. Wow. 1000 followers? Really? I’m… Read More
InfoFarm: The NAL Blog: National Agricultural Library
InfoFarm: The NAL Blog: National Agricultural Library. Mike Haley pointed out the NAL blog to me earlier when I was asking a few questions… they did a post on #thankafarmer and this post on #moo. I’m going to start checking it out more often! This post is months and months old. But made me smile remembering when. 🙂
A New Thanksgiving Tradition in the Making? #Thankafarmer
Thanksgiving has always been an incredible part of my life. I’ve celebrated the holidays many years with vast number of family and other years I’ve been in faraway places like India or Italy where friends have attempted to make me feel at home, particularly for that meal. This year, we will likely have 60-65 people together and most of us… Read More
Three Days in Another World
Having spent time in the Soviet Union, Turkey, China, etc., I thought I knew what it felt like to be in a different world. But those were easy to prepare for. The languages were different, I had long hours on airplanes, etc. This week’s trip to the North American International Livestock Expo (NAILE) felt similar in someways. Now before anyone… Read More
Started learning before I even got on the plane! #NAILE #moo #beef
As I said, I’m making this learning vacation trip to NAILE… And while I have learned a bit from tweeps & tweets the last few days, I’m excited to finally be on my way! Right now, I’m tapping this from 30,000 feet or so – we haven’t made it far out of Memphis. I wanted to go ahead and start… Read More
Learning about #NAILE & I’m not even there yet!
Okay…. I’ve had a few learnings already and I’m not even in Kentucky! First, I’m seeing stories about and photos of the expo posted… It will definitely be a lot of fun and a chance to learn alot! Those are some of the Simmentals Mike & Pam have at the show in the photo at right. And did you… Read More