A pasture-fed steer standing in the field. His coat is shiny but he still has to develop muscle in the rear and across the back

Buffalo flies converging on the eye of a steer

A horse-drawn hay rake. Simple design, simple to operate: Strap your horse in at the front, sit on the seat, raise and lower the tines of the rake to make bale-sized windrows. Perhaps we'll see this machine in action one day?

Both wheels and the seat have been excisied from this listing frame. People hasten by, averting their gazes.

Dad inspects the bank after recent heavy rains. The river is up but the trees are holding on.

Ways to factor the number 12

Just to let u know that:

1. I’ve just upgraded Wordpress, so:
• The PHP 5 error that occured whenever anyone tried to look at any page except the frontpage is gone.
• I have finally cleared the spam backlog. I found 1 real comment in about a thousand. Akeismet did the heavy lifting. Apologies if u left a comment but it was swept away in the spam flood.
2. I’ve been “fixing the template until is is broken” but I’ll work out the layout soonish.

   The only places in the world that use mm-dd-yy are USA and a “few other countries that have been heavily influenced by the US”, to quote the wikipedia.

So lets resolve to use a sensible date format from now on.