Just a quick note to let you know I won’t be blogging for a few days.

We’re heading to South Dakota to deal with weeds on the farm where I grew up.

Thistles are the biggest challenge, and below you see their potential size, as well as the landscape in our pastures on the prairie.

We spray, we dig, we pull, we chop. Whatever it takes.

With my Scots-Irish roots, isn’t it ironic that the thistle should be my nemesis?