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A Shared Blessing ( cowboy poetry)

A FB friend posted this just a few minutes ago…I found it so wonderful …I hope you do too! What a Blessing for this Monday Morning! Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry / CowboyPoetry.com 59 mins · SELDOM SEEN IN TOWN by Paul Kern There drums a rainy torrent now, As my roof echoes the …

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Sigh…

Well we had a real hard killing frost last night! it got most everything here. All the flowers…The grasses I grow are still okay…But most likely there will be another frost tonight… The sheep are doing well…Fat and sassy…Loving the cooler weather…So are the dogs…And you know what? I like it too! Good sleeping weather …

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Puppy Time…

Today was beautiful…But I ended up having to work all day! Rest assured I had plenty of help and helpers! The Drover BOO Puppies were outstanding ! They hunted, tunneled, played, snugged, watched, waited, pulled the pillows and throws off the chairs …Well they did need dusting!  Went with me every step I made outside…Up …

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Tuesday Evening… simple country pleasures

No words to describe how good it is to be a live human being…walking on the earth and enjoying all God has created for us! As I came down the hill  from the Shepherd’s Cottage with all my dogs…They were enjoying being dogs! I noticed the smell of wood smoke in the air…The memories that …

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Fall At Maple Grove Farm…Puppy Walk About

The Three Puppies that are out of the Drover BOO litter (Two boys that are waiting for their new forever homes) and Tess that is headed to Canada in a week or so…to a Sheep Farm went with me across the dam and thru the gate. We did a walk about…Not a planned one! But …

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Puppy Photos!

Enjoy the Drover BOO  Drover/BOO Puppy Photos from today! It was raining! But the puppies had a great time! Granny Abilene kept a watchful eye out for them all…and made sure everyone played nice! Even the tail pullers! Farm raised puppies live the life! What fun! I do have two puppies available they are 8 …

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FINALLY! I have some time to blog!

As you all can guess…I have been busy with puppies and the NC ES Gathering and Puppies!!! Drover is ready for all this to be done and for us to get down to some serious work… Speaking of Drover what a good dog he is!  Sometimes I fear I love him too much!  What a …

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Finally !!! Some Puppy Photos!!!!!

Thank you MJ and Andy Hollingsworth for the photos! Enjoy! The photos are from the NC ES Gathering  Herding Clinic These are the Drover /BOO  puppies. (The larger pup is Marianne Dwights Greta) Here is the link… https://goo.gl/photos/bUoQnLwASdVAxoNz5 Kay

Today My Daddy would have been 79 years old!

My Daddy Alton J. Delk… was born September 18, 1936 to Astor J. Delk and Lyde Nance Delk  in Jackson Creek North Carolina. He was the first of 4 boys… Daddy was a farm boy  (though I do not think he liked farming)  he milked cows, helped with all the farming chores and was a …

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Never a More Glorious , Beautiful Day …

I am very tired…But so content and pleased… First off I want to thank God for all His blessings!  5 of the blessings are Tosha, Roger, Kynsay, Ashlyn and Graham Hunt! Friends that I shall for ever be thankful and grateful for… Then there are the 7 Katahdin Ewes I started with some 5 years …

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