Dad and I had just finished feeding the various herds yesterday (the cows are divided into at least 6 different fields of various sizes - and the horses are in another) when he got a text from Dev saying there was a heifer having trouble, and we'd most likely have to pull the calf. It's [...]
I love to cook for and with my kids. Recently, one of my daughters asked if we could make up a big batch of corn chowder so she could freeze some. I was happy to do this with her, and of course when the rest of the girls found out what was happening everyone ended [...]
Winter played shy this year. All of November it hid high in the mountains, only barely dipping its toes down into the valleys below before running back to its perch. Even when the air beckoned with chill and the ground froze invitingly, the snow stayed away. The frost came and layered everything with beautiful lacy [...]
As I sit here at my computer, trying to find something new to share with you, the sun is splashing here and there outside my window in funny little shapes and splotches. It looks like it's dancing with the shadows, teasing the spindly branches of all the trees that huddle together against the wind, pouring [...]
The sun is bright and stretching across the snow in glittering, sparkly gold this week. It's a deceiving light, a warm glow through the window, a cheery, welcoming, blue-skied kind of look that almost makes you think of spring. However... it's so cold outside the door, if you wrinkle your nose, the wrinkles stay put [...]
Rooted & Established 