Eaton Rapids Joe

Encourage one another and build one another up. Pray without ceasing. Test everything. Keep what is good. Avoid all evil. -1 Thess 5:11,17,21,22

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Sunday, May 3, 2026

Food plants that tolerate flooding

I find myself besieged by questions about food-plants that can withstand flooding and soils with high water-tables. It probably has to do wi...

9-1-1

Sometimes I keep my mouth shut and just listen. It is amazing what you can learn. Today I learned that the Eaton County 9-1-1 system is comp...

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Grab-bag

Today's main task was to continue filling a trench that runs up/down a hill. Mrs ERJ was working one of the shovels and she is a delight...

Every tree tells a story. Some people can hear it.

Planting "Carpathian" Walnuts (i.e. hardy strains of Persian aka "California" Walnuts) was fashionable about fifty years...

Friday, May 1, 2026

Lessons from the playing field

My host at last night's high school sports event informed me that girl's sports, at least in Michigan, are struggling. Twenty years ...

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Busy, busy, busy...

It has been a long day. Quicksilver showed up at 6:30 a.m. I handed her off at 9:30 and started cutting fence wire and loading the back of t...

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Follow-up on the power station

Reading the comments helped me clarify my thoughts. Thank-you, all. I have two sets of needs that have some overlap. So maybe I need two dif...

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