Author's posts
Mar 07
simple country pleasures…peaceful
Sitting in our living room on this grey rainy day makes me feel so peaceful…calm…all is right in my small part of the world…and it is! I watch as my sheep eat the fresh, sweet, green, tender grass…and I wonder…just, how good it must taste to them? It has been 160 days at least …
Jan 09
Why A Shepherdess?
Thursday we had our first Fall lambs born. They came here without any trouble. Somewhere between birthing the first one and the second one the ewe walked off and forgot she had the first one. The first lamb knew who her mama was but the ewe said no way is that mine. So I built a …
Jan 06
Horse Sale!!!!,
As a girl I went everywhere with my Grandma and Grandpa Delk… My sweet Grandpa loved a sale of any kind but a Horse Sale was the best in his eyes…I was right there with him! Grandma would stay home and tell me to not allow him to purchase horses…she was sending the giddy horse …
Nov 21
Why Am I So Drawn to Ghosts and Memories?
As I walk along this beautiful fall day full of life, beauty, the sounds of God’s creation….Sheep bells, horses gently neighing to each other, the soft breeze in the dried leaves that fall softly and happily to the ground…the birds singing…my ducks and Bruce the Goose ….I think farm life… is the best! But I …
Nov 02
My Grandpa was an Overalls Kinda Man…
Sitting here watching my ducks and goose enjoy their supper…the setting sun warm on my back and golden sunlight in my eyes. My dogs all round me and Journey in the door of the Duck Palace lying quietly taking it all in…I can see what my Grandpa saw in being a farmer and his ducks, …
Oct 16
September/October…is always busy here at the farm…
This year in September we had two successful clinics! Rachel Vest was here from Georgia…with a fine clinic on how to be successful trialing in AHBA and AKC… A few ways to achieve success…dress for it, know the rules, be a fine sportsman, and be prepared through training of your dog. We held an AHBA …
Oct 16
August Saturdays
Are filled with sun, fun in the pond, dogs playing in the pond, working sheep lots of people over , and well swinging in my swing! Frogs, wasps, the occasional June bug, misquotes, poison oak, Sheep to take to pasture and sheep to bring into the fold… Where have the June Bugs disappeared to this …
Aug 02
I keep thinking…
that I will post often for there is so much going on and that is the reason…I fall asleep or am just too tired… I am sitting here in the quiet of the night…when there is not much noise…a tinkle of a sheep bell off in the distance…the few creatures that speak in the night …
Jul 03
That Empty Sunday Feeling…
Sundays for me as long as I can remember meant: church at Piney Grove UMC, (preaching and Sunday school) , dinner (that is what we called lunch) at Grandma’s, sitting in the yard, talking and listening to stories Grandpa told us and lots of cousins and uncles and aunts all there… the cousins playing in …
Jul 03
Saturday at the farm…
It was a hot one today! No idea the temp nor do I care to know… then I would be comparing temps not days as the round of hot July weather starts…but at 7 AM it was quite warm and getting warmer…Ah this is why folks that work outside start at sun up… wise in …
