Nov 02
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, …
Jun 16
I ate a fresh cucumber today with my tomato sandwich…and the smell of the cucumber almost made me sick…I had to pause a moment and think…(I love cucumbers) … That smell reminded me… I suppose the first memory of my Grandma was when I was two years old…I was crying as my Mother left me …
Jan 01
Have you ever stopped along the side of the road while passing thru farming country and watched as a Farmer tilled the soil with a John Deer Tractor or a pair of matched work horses and planted the field? Had the opportunity to visit with a Farmer, sit down and talk under the shade trees? …
Aug 15
Thunder is rolling. As the softly falling rain makes its wonderful music…and the smell of fresh rain…Then a large boom of thunder that shakes everything! Lightening displays the clouds in the summer sky. Oh for sure a Simple Country Pleasure! I walked by the honey jar and stole a drop…I love fresh honey. When I …
Jan 16
So my powers of “knowing which Ewe will lamb” Clearly Do Not Exist! I thought one of my Katahdin ewes was going to lamb last night. So at 2:30 AM I was moving sheep in the dark (well Drover was!) I had the ram in with the ewes and thought better of it! I opened …
