Animals
- In The Meadow We Will Build A Rainman?
To date, this has been the most unusual winter of my life.As far as the record books go, it has been the warmest. It's nice to not have to suffer the polar vortices that beat down upon us the past two years...especially in the morning, when heading...
- Instinct And So Much More
It's been one of the most spectacular Autumns of my life.The colors were amazing.The weather was perfect...lots of sun, lots of warmth.To ask for anything more would be downright greedy! But Autumn's colors are fading now.The almost fluorescent...
- A Little Of This, A Little Of That
Today is a rainy, rainy day here on the farm...so, yesterday I tried to get as much done outside as I could.Mornings have been exceptionally cold...temps in the low 30's. Afternoons warm up to the 50's...so that is when extra outside chores are...
- Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's Off To Work I Go....
Yesterday was one of those days....those non-stop work days that seem to go on and on and on. It all started at dawn when I headed out to feed the animals, clean and refill water tubs,and scoop poop. Those items took about and hour and a half....
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...
Animals
A Good Day Is A Mix Of Work And Play
Great weather continues...
and so does the outside work!
I've been working on cleaning out the vegetable garden.
It's amazing how quickly weeds take over once the vegetables are done.
At some point this summer I stopped weeding.
(Yikes... that was a mistake!)
So, I have a few weeks of work to get the garden beds ready for winter.
I will do a little each day until it is done.
Most everything in the garden is now dead,
with the exception of these gourd vines.
They just keep growing and spreading and making new gourds!
The early gourds are now huge, hidden here beneath the asparagus.
I swear if winter never came the entire garden might be covered in birdhouse gourds!
All work and no play makes for a very long day.
That's why I spend a little time each day just sitting with my friends.
Afternoons are quiet in the pig yard and the sheep yard.
It seems that in both places afternoons are made for napping.
I quietly sit beside the sheep and listened to the sound of their breathing.
Sheep are the most peaceful creatures,
and my presence doesn't seem to bother them in the least.
I imagine another time, long ago, when I might have been a shepherdess...
tending to my flock in a meadow on the side of a mountain.
And then I remember that in those days I would have had to worry about wolves.
Luckily, my girls live a predator-free life without fear.
Their world is as peaceful as they make mine.
I find myself wishing that this were the case for the whole world...
peaceful co-exsistence.
But alas.....
- In The Meadow We Will Build A Rainman?
To date, this has been the most unusual winter of my life.As far as the record books go, it has been the warmest. It's nice to not have to suffer the polar vortices that beat down upon us the past two years...especially in the morning, when heading...
- Instinct And So Much More
It's been one of the most spectacular Autumns of my life.The colors were amazing.The weather was perfect...lots of sun, lots of warmth.To ask for anything more would be downright greedy! But Autumn's colors are fading now.The almost fluorescent...
- A Little Of This, A Little Of That
Today is a rainy, rainy day here on the farm...so, yesterday I tried to get as much done outside as I could.Mornings have been exceptionally cold...temps in the low 30's. Afternoons warm up to the 50's...so that is when extra outside chores are...
- Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's Off To Work I Go....
Yesterday was one of those days....those non-stop work days that seem to go on and on and on. It all started at dawn when I headed out to feed the animals, clean and refill water tubs,and scoop poop. Those items took about and hour and a half....
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...