Happy Memorial Weekend

Hello my dear friends!
It’s been a looooong time since we’ve last talked. I guess it’s just that time of year when EVERYTHING seems to run together, like, garden clean-up, spring planting, kidding, shearing, lambing, milking, bottle feeding, end-of-school-year activities, graduation (YEAH Matt!), re-opening the shop and mowing – or baling – the grass, etc. Of course, that ‘to-do’ [...]

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Treat Yourself (and Mom) to a Herbal Foot Soak

Our feet do a lot for us. They take the beatings of the daily grind – getting crammed into ‘fashionable’ stilettos and narrow pumps – and carry the weight of the world on two tiny little plains. We take our feet for granted, so isn’t it time that we treat them with the respect they deserve? [...]

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If I can’t eat it, I’m not plant’n it!

It’s been a very busy week in the garden…the weeds are growing like crazy! I’ve decided that if I can’t eat it (dye with it or make some herbal concoction), I’m not planting it. There’s only so many hours in the day for gardening in addition to all the other chores piling up around here. [...]

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Reality of Farm Life…

Dear Friends,
It is with great sadness that I bring you this news of my Shetland ewe, Polly. Yesterday she experienced great difficulty in lambing. When all was done, I managed to save Polly, but her beautiful twin ram lambs where dead. Today I will loose myself in work…

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