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Sep 08
Old Dogs…
Montanna is 12 years old…and becoming slower… Today she slipped down to the sheep pens while I worked dogs …Took her a while because we were at the far end of the field…But she finally made it quietly…Along with Abilene…They sat in the thicket and watched on the other side of the fence across from …
Sep 05
What Can I Say?
This afternoon…my Uncle Don Rogers called to tell me that his older brother (my Uncle Houston Rogers) had passed away this morning …Uncle Houston was out in his yard with some tools and had a massive heart attack… Houston was my Mother’s brother… Sigh… I am sad…and surprised…Though Uncle Houston was up in his 80’s …
Sep 03
I Stand Amazed…
Life…New Life…I witnessed nine miracles born today…I never cease to be surprised at the feelings and wonders this stirs in my heart. What a wonderful Mother BOO is! She just knows what to do…and does everything correctly! Cleaning, feeding, caring for her puppies… She also wanted me with her ! But once I was there …
Sep 02
The Stork arrived with BOO/ Drover Puppies Today!!!!
At 9:00 AM the Stork landed at Maple Grove Farm with NINE healthy, strong, beautiful, English Shepherd Puppies!!! It took most of the day for the stork to unload the puppies! BOO and Puppies are doing fine! I suspect BOO, puppies, and myself will sleep well tonight! I know that stork is tired! We have …
Aug 26
Drover’s Stock Dog Journal…
Today we worked sheep…Once a week or so as needed…Kay and I gather the sheep and pen them in the sheep pens and check them for worms and also their feet and anything else that might need attention. Today Dan and Buddy came down and they took a lesson in herding . I like to …
Aug 24
Piney Grove …
This is the week we have the Revival at church…The tradition was : As told to me thru the years by my Grandpa Astor J. Delk his Daddy was Frank Delk and his Mother Essie Skeen Delk Preachers would come together and hold revival under a brush arbor built for the occasion on the hill …
Aug 23
Piney Grove’s Big Meeting…
Piney Grove was founded on August 13, 1871… My Grandpa use to tell me about the Big Meetings he attended as a boy. Tomorrow will be full of memories of precious loved ones now gone on… This evening I have had tears at every turn in the kitchen. I am so very blessed. I have …
Aug 14
Sheep Farm …work
I was in the house and heard a lamb (we only have one) and yes I pretty much know my ewes by their voice…It was stressed and I knew something was wrong… Drover and I went to see what we needed to do…to help. The rest of the dogs were out and had to stay …
Aug 06
We Go Thru Life…
Looking at other people and their lives. From the other side of the fence where the grass is not so green… Or so it seems…to us… We look at what seems to us.. a charmed life…Everything… that we think we would be happy with if only we had that life…Children, Spouse, Family, Friends, a Good …
