-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Lone Tree Farm on Ka… on Picking Wild Plums Katie on Picking Wild Plums robertcday on CHANGES John Shurr on CHANGES Carol Meyer Goretzki on First Christmas Archives
- February 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- January 2020
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- May 2016
- April 2016
- January 2016
Categories
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Homesteading on the Kanaranzi
In the spring of 1870, John B. Shurr and his nephew, stood on a hill about one mile south of the State Line and looked out to the east over the valley of the Kanaranzi Creek. The Rock River valley … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Farm History
Tagged Gilded Age, Homestead Act, land grants, railroads, settlement patterns
1 Comment
What’s in a Name?
“Runs as the crazy man walks.” That’s what Grandma Daisy Walker Shurr said the word “Kanaranzi” meant. This is what the Creek looked like back in the early Seventies below the hill where our house is located. A friend of … Continue reading
“Sabbath” on the Farm
Voluntary self-isolation during this current COVID-19 crisis can be considered an opportunity to celebrate an extended “Sabbath”. That was the suggestion made by one of our favorite pastors in his virtual sermon this past Palm Sunday. He reminded us that … Continue reading
Posted in Family History
Tagged Apollo 13, Covid-19, Earth Day, Easter Sunday, headstone, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Viet Nam
7 Comments
Kanaranzi Creek and Covid-19
The last two years we’ve had record rainfall and Kanaranzi Creek has changed a lot because of it. Although the spring melts have not produced much flooding, the summer “rain bombs” have resulted in bank-full flows sustained over long periods … Continue reading
Posted in Earth Science
Tagged air photos, channel changes, Covid-19, deposition, erosion, scientific process
1 Comment