Category: English Shepherds

Simple Country (DOG ) Pleasures…

Old dogs are the best!:) Young dogs are too! As I write this I smile…and yes a tear or two slides down my cheek… See I have an old dog (Montanna) asleep in the mud room on a soft special bed complete with her very own pillow!  I can hear her deep soft breathing and …

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Cold March Day…

While not raw by any means…Today was a typical cold windy March day! The kind that says “SPRING IS ON ITS WAY!” I heard frogs and crickets early this morning accompanied by  the soft bah of lambs and Ewes…The soft tinkle of the bells on the sheep and a Morning Doves soft song down in …

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Daffodils, Yellow Belles, and Herding…

The fourth Tuesday of each month is Friendly Neighborhood Club!  This a local group of mostly retired  folks that meet , have a program, and a meal once a month…at Piney Grove UMC Fellowship Hall , in Jackson Creek …(My Pea Patch)  yes one day I will tell you that one!:) We had a wonderful …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Sunday morning church services at Piney Grove. With the friends, neighbors and family I grew up with. The preaching was good… It started to rain as the service was over and we all lingered in the vestibule and chatted …Some of the children of the children that rode horses with me several years ago were …

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Our Trip to New Bern!

Les and I went to New Bern to visit my cousins Terry and Beverly. (dog kin) 🙂 is what Terry says we are…That means distant cousins through my Grandma Delk! We started out early yesterday morning….Stopped at Biscuitville for a biscuit! Headed down to Snow Hill to visit with Marlene and Ms Dixie…They have one …

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A Day on the Farm…

Montanna had all hr hair cut off last week. So she spends most of her time in the mud room on her new warm soft comfy bed! Drover and the Girls hung out on the carport with the crazy Rooster! (I know that Roo thinks he is a dog!) And they LET HIM!!!! Les worked …

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Beautiful Ice Storm!

It was the kind that looked beautiful! All silvery and sparkly and then all the mists and fog! You could here the crinkle all through out the night of the ice on the trees as it froze and they moved in the wind. By morning it was a cold wet frozen beautiful day! The sun …

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Sad Day…

In so many ways today has been difficult for me. One year ago my Mother passed away about 10:15 PM in her bed surrounded by her 2 children… My heart breaks  as I think of her and her life.  Of our lives lived  together for so many years. Please forgive my feeling sorry for myself …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Sunday afternoon Les and I jumped into the pickup truck and headed for Denton…To the Country Store and some hand dipped delicious ice cream. (Now I do not normally do this) Ice cream in so many ways is not my friend… especially to my waist! Les got a Banana Split and he got to pick …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Les and I rose early …The day was beautiful. Birds singing…sheep grazing contently, dogs happy, and one rooster crowing:) Monday evening our good neighbor Clay Trotter had come over and he and Les loaded the ram on the truck in the crate…So we were ready to go to the auction in Mt Airy. Wow, the …

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