Category: Horses

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Country Music…

I was listening to the birds this evening just before dark…to the frogs…the crickets chirping…the sheep bells tingling softly in the sweet warm night air…a dog in the distance barking…every once in a while a stronger wind blows…I can hear the cows in the distance mooing, and the sheep calling to each other good night…SIGH… …

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The Why…

Allie and I took a trail ride down by my Great Grandma Nance’s place… a few days ago.  Sigh…the old home is gone…It stood for 100 years and a few… I always wondered WHY that spot was chosen by my Great Grandpa  Nance… I saw it for the first time since the old home was …

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Some “Down Time”…(the good kind)…My Jackson Creek…

So in the face in the upcoming three weeks events here at the farm I knew I  had to have some “Down Time” …or I knew I would not make it thru all the coming work here at the farm.  We have the Cardigan Supported AKC Herding Trial the 24 th and 25 th of …

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34 years…

Long ago July 31,1988…Les and I were married at my home church…Piney Grove United Methodist Church, in Jackson Creek, North Carolina…By Reverend Bill Farmer…Before God and our family and friends… So many from that beautiful day now reside in that great cloud of witnesses in heaven… My sweet Grandma and Grandpa , Daddy and Mama, …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

A strong warm roaring fire…on a cold evening, that is inviting and comforting…a good long hot tub bath after being outside in the cold all day… A good warm  soft robe…and soft pj’s. Good friends that send cards at Christmastime and other important times in your life… A warm home. A loving life partner…that loves …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

The full moon rising in the Fall sky bathed in the mists rising from the temperature changes… Sheep calling to one another in the night quietly.  Watching the older ewes turned towards the sunrise for warmth…the lambs walking over to them and laying down to capture their warmth! The soft tinkle of the bells on …

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