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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 …
May 26
Sometimes….
I forget to move my ewes and lambs from behind the dam to the field in front of our home…once in a while. I also have to move the worked sheep to their nighttime pasture first. Well this evening I was heading to bed and it was like 11 :30 PM…I had cooked a pound …
May 13
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 …
May 12
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 …
