Category: Simple Country Pleasures

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 …

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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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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, …

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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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Walking Among Memories

When I was a wee girl my Grandpa Delk told me stories of his youth. (he was born in 1915)…he must have been 45 when I first remember his stories… Seems back then there were preachers that came round and held what was called “Big Meetings” they would build a brush arbor and have the …

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Today…at the farm and about

This morning dawned bright and beautiful. The golden rays of sunshine on the pond were a site! I could hear the music from the sheep bells as the lambs did early morning races and their Mamas tried to see the under control. It is all so funny to watch… I had a lesson this morning …

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Peace…like 23 lambs having fun

This evening…KAT, Journey, Tallie and I went down into the big field in front of our home to watch the lamb races. We were not disappointed!  It was more like “Lamb Shenanigans ” …they ran, laid down, played in the terrace, leaped straight up, caused their Mothers to call them and yet continued with their …

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3 AM…so you want to raise sheep?

Here it is 3 AM Sunday morning (Palm Sunday) I am blogging…waiting on lambs!  I had set my alarm for 2 AM and slept thru that alarm (tired from last night’s adventure. ) but my conscience could not allow me to sleep!  So up and out to the quietness of the night…a few bells but …

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