Questions
The questions the journal gets
Five of them come around often enough that they have earned standing answers. Open one to read it.
Is anything sold from this place through the site?
No. There is nothing here to arrange, engage or sign. The hay stays in the stack, the cattle stay in the pasture, and the log stays a log. This site publishes what the farm teaches and carries messages, and that is the whole of it.
Are you a county office?
No. I am one man on one farm. The county recorder, the road district and the extension office are real offices with real authority, and the pages here say so wherever they come up. When this log and a county record disagree about a parcel or a road, the county record wins.
Can I use your rain log?
Yes, freely. The numbers come from one standard gauge, ten feet clear of the machine shed, read every morning and entered the same day, one page per month since the first winter I had the place. If you use them, say where they came from and which gauge they were read from. That is all I ask, and it keeps a borrowed number honest.
Why is an entry sometimes one sentence?
Because that day was one sentence. A dry July week does not produce a page, and I do not pad the notebook to make an entry look substantial. The record is kept the same day or not at all, and a true short entry beats a dressed-up long one. Entry 408 stands as the example.
Do you give land or legal advice?
No. The boundary and recorder notes describe what the county offices show for this parcel and nothing further. The recorder of deeds and the county are the source of record for deeds, easements and boundaries, and a licensed attorney or surveyor is the person to carry a question the rest of the way. The guides say what worked on this ground, in this county, in these years, and your ground may answer differently.