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From My View of the Heart Pasture
Your time is valuable so thank you for spending it with me. As promised I will share 3 things: an idiom, a recommendation, and an under 2 minute tale. “Something to crow about” means you’ve got exciting news to share. It comes from a loud rooster in the morning announcing the day or any old… →
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More Than Just Stuff
I never imagined that I’d be so grateful to have the temperature outside rise to 35 degrees, and have clean running water inside a house full of memorable things I cherish. But this is what I am feeling. Today. Over the last four days, I have run the gamut of thoughts and feelings. What was… →
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Love is in the Air
(4 minute read) Happy Valentine’s Day! I interrupt your day running errands (buying cards, candy or flowers) with a little update. Love is in the air! Not sure how that happened so quickly because I just put away all of our Christmas decorations the other day. Do I even bring out the Valentines wreath and… →
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Before, During and After the Happily Ever After
(20 minute read) ACT 1 The scene opens up next to a barn. A woman is crying. Chickens and goats at her feet, she sets down the wire basket of eggs. Only three eggs today. Maybe the chickens are also stressed. Their usual offering of eight to ten is less than half, and one egg… →
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The Month I Traded the Farm for the Lake
(10 minute read) Home sweet home, or as Dorothy says, “There’s no place like home.” Or in my case, “Farm sweet farm.” Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a homebody. My favorite days are when my car does not leave the driveway. It was true when I lived in a city suburb… →
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Do you get Cancel Pleasure?
(5 minute read) I am usually one for “cancel pleasure.” Not today. Right now I should be up in the sky above Virginia en route to the west coast. Instead, I am sitting with my coffee and dogs at home on my sofa. Usually, I am one of those odd home bodies that like when… →
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New Kids on The Block (or in our case The Farm)
(15 minute read) Our herd and our hearts just grew larger. A few days ago we brought home four Nigerian Dwarf goats. Before I begin to tell the story of their homecoming, I must first admit that I am already smitten with these tiny kids. If I thought our chickens were friendly, I had no… →
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How Can I Help You Best, Little Ones?
7 minute read) There is a bird that built her nest right in the middle of our gravel driveway. She could not have chosen a more highly traveled spot. In order to avoid smashing the four small speckled eggs one needs to drive straight over so the tires flank the nest instead of flattening the… →
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“Green Acres is the Place to Be, Farm Livin’ is the Life For Me” (for Us)
(20 minute read…relax it’s country time) I look out in the pasture and I can see the large red clay dirt mound where Smoke was buried last summer. Nearby is the spot where a few weeks before we laid to rest one of our chickens that died in the night. How did I get… →
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Have you heard about The Herd?
(8 minute read) A group of giraffes is called a tower. A gathering of zebras is a dazzle. A loveliness of ladybugs. A snuggle of sloths. A smack of jellyfish. A mob of Kangaroos. A conspiracy of lemurs. The collective nouns for penguins are raft, waddle, rookery, colony, and huddle; But flamingos in a group… →
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