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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

7 years

Real men.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

5 years

I have something to get off my chest. It drives me wild when I’m out, just me and the kids, and someone walks by and says ‘looks like dad’s babysitting today.’ No. It doesn’t look like dad’s babysitting. Dad isn’t the babysitter. Dad is the parent. He’s parenting.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

These youth street gangs are getting out of control.

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6 months

@HannahPosted If you’ve visited either, you know the one on the right is ultimately more terrifying.

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Stuart Somerville

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11 months

Sometimes the neighbour’s Percheron stud crashes through 3 fences to visit your Belgian mare and the next September you find this.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Our wee girl.

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10 months

My unpopular Remembrance Day opinion is that no soldier died or veteran fought because they supported your right to fly a F*** Trudeau flag like some sort of overgrown petulant toddler.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Went to local John Deere dealership to pick up some parts. Took the kids for a drive past the tractors before we left. 5 year old sees a John Deere 4020 (with a puddle of oil underneath) in the lineup. “That looks like one in our price range” he says. Damn. He’s right.

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Stuart Somerville

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2 years

Last fall, this wee boy of mine had a big fall when the horse bolted on him. He’s been nervous about riding ever since but today his grandma got him back in the saddle. Can you give him a round of applause?

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2 years

Brought the trail boss along to move these first calf heifers.

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6 years

My brother-in-law just had the cops called on him for buying breakfast for an elderly indigenous woman at a southern Alberta restaurant. Way to challenge those negative stereotypes fellow rural Albertans.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 years

Our old Labrador retriever has gone to his rest. He was a very very good dog. And one of the best people I knew.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 months

A really close call. This calf was born with the sack over his head. He was twitching when I got here- not breathing at all. Pulled it off and tickled his nose until he took a breathe. I think he’ll be alright.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 years

People say “I grew up on a farm so I know what farming is like” and I’m going to call horseshit. I grew up on a farm too and knew what growing up on a farm was like. But I didn’t know shit about farming. It took me until my 30s to realize it. I’ve barely started to accept it.

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Stuart Somerville

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9 months

Something happened today that NEVER happens. We finished all the fall work before the weather turned nasty. The corrals are cleaned; the feed is in; the calves are weaned and weighed and treated. We’re not in danger of having no work to do- but at least we aren’t floundering.

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Stuart Somerville

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8 years

I'm alright with being in a country where olympics coverage is interrupted for a concert. With no ads. And the PM attends. #TragicallyHip

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Farming can be a damn lonely job. Sometimes it’s physically lonely. Sometimes it’s emotionally and intellectually lonely. I like what I do and I want no one’s pity. But I reckon it’s healthy to admit you find some stuff hard every now and then.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

I think he’s trying to intimidate me.

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1 year

@ShimminyKricket @Amutongi1906 My dude- that literally means it’s not the voter’s fault.

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Stuart Somerville

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9 months

We had to put down the fjord horse tonight. He had a twisted gut. Not really the Sunday evening I was hoping for. Maybe spare a prayer tonight for vets who get called out to farms when they’d rather be warm in front of the tv at home.

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Stuart Somerville

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8 months

Shared by a local business.

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Stuart Somerville

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2 years

My family came out to the field this evening so I shut the tractor down for a few minutes. We ate cabbage rolls cross legged on the ground and had a really short, impromptu ball game on the cultivated ground. Then the kids took turns riding along with me. I’m a lucky guy.

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Stuart Somerville

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5 years

My sheep herding buddy has gone to bark at the big flock in the sky. She was 15 years old. She’d lived with us for nearly 10.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

2 years

A nice set of twins after dark.

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Stuart Somerville

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5 years

The irony isn’t lost on me that the local public school board sent a notice to all parents that unpaid fees will be referred to a collection agency in the same week that the premier told rural municipalities they oughtn’t push oil and gas companies to pay outstanding taxes.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

We meet again, llama.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 years

Today would've been my Grandpa's 100th birthday. He's been gone for 22 years now, but nearly every day I end up thinking about things we did together: playing cards, toasting the Queen with glasses of ginger ale, watching jeopardy, talking about when he was young.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

5 year old laddie wakes up, gets dressed, and asks if he can go visit the horses. He's out there right now, sitting on the fence and talking to them. I feel like, if nothing else, I've done one thing right in this parenting gig.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 months

One more calf. Think we’ve had 17 so far today.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

I’m going to take break from twitter for a while. My temper’s about run out and I want to think about other stuff. Here’s a brockle-faced calf to hold you over until I come back.

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Stuart Somerville

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1 year

Sometimes, midnight checks are awful. But other times you find this and that’s ok.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

Just heard about a bad instance of bullying at our local school. I’m going to let you all in on a secret: no kid is born to be a bully; they learn how to be a bully from the adults in their life. Every. Damn. Time.

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Stuart Somerville

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2 years

Out on the prairie.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

We’ve got us a situation here. Left Cow is trying to steal Right Cow’s calf. Left Cow pulled the same trick yesterday. She isn’t even in calf- she’s cycling and the hormones have made her a bit goofy. Left Cow also has a thirst for human blood. I don’t really like Left Cow.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Reckoned I ought to mention this to folks.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

It finally caught us. 4/5 in this household have Covid. No one is dangerously sick at the moment, but it doesn’t feel like just a flu either- it’s definitely burning longer. Take care of yourselves.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

Some of you are awfully defensive about selling hay by the bale instead of by the lb. I’ve weighed every single bale we’ve fed this winter. There’s as much as 450lbs difference in bales that look the same from the same baler and the same field. You need to sell by the lb.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

11 years ago, the missus and I up and got hitched. I don't think we could've even imagined some of the things we'd make it through together. But here were are.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

Do people understand that the Calgary Stampede is largely attended by accountants & insurance adjusters larping as 90s country music video extras? I feel like some of you think it’s a bunch of farmers and ranchers and country kids coming to town & it’s really not.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

4 months

Cowboys at sea: headed to London to put on a rodeo. My great grandfather is on the left.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

8 years

My aunt took this picture today: traffic jam in Randolph, Utah.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Cow fort. No people allowed. #cattle #prairies

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Stuart Somerville

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2 years

15 years married today.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

Dear @AWCanada : care to explain why your Cardston, Alberta location refused to serve an elderly indigenous woman, refused to let an indigenous couple buy her a meal, and the called the police when someone else did buy a meal and carry it outside to her? #alberta #canada

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

7 years

2 year old was furious with me tonight. The reason? I wouldn't let him butter his cheese. #truestory

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

My wife's grandfather passed away today. He was the last grandparent we had left between us. He could be a bit rough around the edges, but he was always really interested in our two wee boys. Raise a glass of cider to Garth this evening, if you get the chance.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

To live on the prairies in winter is to live with sun dogs.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

Any farmer who says anything along the lines of ‘we should stop sending the cities food for a week and see how they feel’ should have their city-built tractor and truck and their city refined fuel confiscated until they learn that we depend on each other.

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Stuart Somerville

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8 years

Just before dusk. #alberta #prairies

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5 years

I’m a born and bred Albertan. And yet somehow, not once has a politicians uttered the phrase “Albertans want...” and it represented what I think or believe. Weird.

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Stuart Somerville

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7 years

Dear Central Alberta retailers: stop trying to make Black Friday a thing in Alberta. It's not a thing in Alberta.

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6 years

View from the saddle. #prairies

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5 months

Hello there young feller! You chose a cold, breezy morning to arrive but you get to call yourself First of the Year.

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3 months

Striking a pose.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

7 years

Spent time with a herd of bison this morning. Now imagine thousands of them and no fences. #alberta #prairies

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Stuart Somerville

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5 years

Shipped a load of 41 fed steers on Monday. Got the results back- 40/41 graded AAA. That’s a big deal for a little outfit like us! It feels great to be reminded that sometimes things go well around here.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

4 years

7 year old’s class is having a Zoom meeting with their teacher and I’m listening to it. Each kid is taking turns sharing what’s been happening this past week. And now I know how calving is going on all the neighbours’ farms.

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Stuart Somerville

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3 years

Lost this medal almost a year ago. Looked down at my feet this afternoon and there it was. It’s a very small miracle!

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Stuart Somerville

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3 years

Now you know.

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Stuart Somerville

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1 year

Any time we trail cattle along this road, at least one car pulls over to take a picture. A few more years and I don’t think we’ll be permitted to move them along the roadways any more but for now I get a kick out of the enjoyment it gives some people.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 months

Sometimes I check the cows. Sometimes they check me.

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Stuart Somerville

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10 months

Not fans of the weather.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

I’m sorry if you’re tired of seeing our new calves- I never get tired of it myself. #cattle #alberta #prairies

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

7 years

The missus has been knitting again. All from our own flock, too.

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Stuart Somerville

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2 years

Today on Dead, Dying, or Asleep…

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Stuart Somerville

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4 years

To myself: I sure hope the sheep stayed in last night. *Sips coffee. Looks out window. Sees fifty sheep quietly file by through yard. Sheep walk calmly into barn. Last sheep has bucket on head. *Sips coffee again.

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6 years

Hey @AWCanada - do all your restaurants have a policy of refusing to serve elderly indigenous people and then calling the cops on folks who tries to help them? Or is that just a special policy at your Cardston location.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

5 years

Listen, I think it's entirely true that agriculture has lots of room to improve on the environment front. But I'm pretty friggin' skeptical that we're "eating the world to death" instead of mining and drilling and paving and draining and burning and polluting it to its demise.

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Stuart Somerville

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3 years

It’s hog in the water trough degrees outside. #farmlife #alberta #prairies

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3 years

I’m caught in an Endiang traffic jam.

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@Stuthefarmer

6 years

The work horses are gone and the barn has collapsed, but the harness is right where they left it. #alberta #prairies

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

Hungarian Grey Cattle. Because sometimes it's easy to forget that there are breeds besides Angus, Charolais, and Simmental. #cattle

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4 years

2 years ago, on a snowy Christmas Eve morning, the missus told me I’d better take her to town because the baby was coming. That afternoon, I met this wee girl for the first time.

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Stuart Somerville

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6 years

This is Magnus. Magnus is coming to live with us.

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Stuart Somerville

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4 years

My aunt in Anchorage- my mother’s oldest sister & one of the kindest people I know- broke her leg a few weeks ago. She was put into a facility to recover. There’s been a big COVID-19 outbreak in the facility. She’s scared & alone. Could you spare a moment to think of her?

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27 days

Prairie girl.

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10 months

Our house looked cozy last night in the moonlight.

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4 months

I am here to render assistance. Never underestimate the ability of a calf to forget how he got across the fence in the first place and simply just…die.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

A llama’s preferred habitat is anywhere he shouldn’t be.

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3 years

I’ve spent every day lately reminding myself of all the ways we’re lucky or doing fine here on the farm. But I’m still exhausted and depressed and feeling a little hopeless. Think we’ll pack the kids up and go to church and go out for ice cream and see if that helps.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

I’ve shared it before, but I stumbled across this again and I still think it’s a great photo. My grandpa in 1937.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

5 months

There is a law that says snow will make the calves come.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

It’s -7 C and I’m in town wearing a kilt. Everyone I see says they don’t know how I can stand the cold in a kilt. Friend, I have 8 pounds of wool cloth wrapped around my middle and thick wool socks on my legs. How do you manage the cold in 1/8 inch thick cotton blue jeans?

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

There are no words to describe the burning hatred I hold for mowing the lawn. Had I my druthers, I’d fence the whole damn thing for horses and goats. But then I’d be that hillbilly guy who pastures horses and goats on his lawn. Kids would think it was pretty awesome, though.

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Stuart Somerville

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5 months

We helped this feller into the world last night. He looks better now than he did then.

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@Stuthefarmer

6 years

When a cow meets her calf. #cattle #alberta #prairies

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

3 years

Behold our Habsburg-eagle gingerbread! Maybe not good enough to be made baron or anything like that, but hopefully good enough to get a like from @EduardHabsburg .

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

4 months

Our house is on a pretty tough piece of ground. We’ve tried planting flowers and shrubs over and over and something always wipes them out. But today in the sunshine after the rain a tulip flowered. First time we’ve managed that. Makes a guy feel optimistic.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

5 years

The Alberta government uses only the most effective methods while looking for foreign funded activists. #ReportAnAlbertan

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@Stuthefarmer

3 years

A photo from the local paper. I realize I’ve never posted much proof that I actually know how to play the pipes.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

6 years

If you're angry about the University of Alberta awarding David Suzuki an honorary degree because of his politics and positions, you'll be horrified to learn that the University has previously awarded honorary degrees to all sorts of people you may disagree with.

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Stuart Somerville

@Stuthefarmer

7 years

I'm pretty tolerant of most food trends, but anyone who thinks chickens should eat vegetarian diets has never seen hens hunt and eat mice.

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@Stuthefarmer

8 years

Celts have no time for your pumpkin Jack O'Lanterns.

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@Stuthefarmer

3 years

My grandparents’ piano came to live with us today. It’s not the fanciest piano in the world, but it’s the one I remember my mom and aunts and cousins playing when we visited grandma and grandpa’s house. Now my kids get to meet it.