I spent 2 1/2 years in Turkey from 88-90 in the Air Force. The earthquake in Turkey is heartbreaking to see. The places I once visited are in ruins. I’ve not heard much on the status of some of the museums or other sites but I’m assuming they are heavily damaged. I saw a lot of questionable construction when I was there. Everything is built with a form of concrete or blocks, then was very little reinforcment at all. The dorm on base was condemned as it wasn’t safe to earthquake standards so many us were moved off base. Often into even less safe places. Again concrete blocks and no reinforcement, often 2-3 stories tall in the village. I haven’t heard of damage out of Incirlik but there is some collapses in Adana, the city nearby.

I had been through Gazientep, Adaiyaman, Iskendrun and that whole area on tours. The roads then were narrow, it was often mountanous, very very rural. Beautiful and some of the oldest civilization comes from that area, so much history.

I’ve neve been back and now it doesn’t seem like it will be possible either.

It has me pulling out my old pictures to remember. It’s been 30 years and I was so young.

FARM UPDATE

It’s hard to belive but the maple sap is running and has been on and off for a few days. We will be boiing starting tuesday and it looks to be a very busy week of making syrup.

I am not ready mentally. But here it goes anyways.

We’ve made the tough decision to raise our prices on our offerings this year for beef and pork due to all our cost increases. It’s not as easy thing to do but necessary or we can’t keep doing this. We’d really like to keep on doing this.

Emails start going out today to our beef and pork customers. They go out in batches to our 2022 customers. by the end of the month we wil open to any new orders.

This afternnon it’s cutting wood for the sugar shack something we have. put off way too long. The logs are seasoned so it’s the the splitting then stacking to be done. We have a small wood processor so splitting is not so hard. I usually do it on my own and the guys chuck the logs into the lengths.

I am working on figuring out a new to me shipping app for shipping our products. This should help with the headache on my end and maybe lower our costs a little.

Most of my seed orders are in with just 1 more to come but that has some backordered items to wait on.

I’ll probably start some early peppers and a few tomatoes in March in the house with grow lights , then the rest in the greenhouse in April.

The first group of piglets will be arriving this week. FUN! It’s a nice mild weather week for the move which is nice.

I need to get outside and soak up some. sun while getting things ready for MAPLE SEASON!