Category: My Heart

Sunday Morning … Simple Country Pleasures….

A sweet lamb with and even Sweeter Boy!   As I sit here, on this cool Sunday morning…I can almost see the grass growing outside my window  in the big field. Ths sheep are sleeping in it seems. Actually they are waiting on the sun to warm them, five of the 60 plus are up …

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Journey’s Stockdog Journal…

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Part of the Maple Grove Farm Flock   Journey is a Drover/ BOO son. He is quite the character….Everyone loves him and he can” put on the dog” as my Grandpa use to say… He has a way with everyone young and old alike …Loving, friendly, happy… with me serious and wants to work sheep… …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

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Home made Biscuits hot with melted butter and they are pretty too! (compliments Lawana Manning) Fried Chicken homemade  (Lawana Manning) A lone beautiful still fruitful Pear Tree on a cold wintery day (Buffalo Creek Dairy)  A warm homemade Creme Cheese Pound Cake for a church supper …made by me…my friend’s special recipe (Jane Borders) A …

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The Stork…

Christmas Pups 2016

As I sit here waiting for Cheyenne to have her puppies…I remember when Cheyenne was born at Maple Grove Farm…She sure has grown up good! A happy, healthy, loving, biddable, beautiful, hard working dairy farm dog!  She is so lucky to have Lawana and Stacey as her people, and to live on their beautiful farm.  …

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The Heart of a Shepherd…(Drover)

  As the sun sets on this wet, damp, grey, cloudy day. It has been amazingly warm . The rain has been in showers light and off and on… I sit here in the window of our living room and watch the fog roll into the low places along the branch and off in the …

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My Heart Is Broken…

Simply my KAT will not be having puppies this time. Thru no fault of hers or mine…The puppies are simply gone! Not in her…a miscarriage…she does have milk and is still nesting…The Vet says she is fine and lost the puppies about 2 to 3 weeks ago… She is fine internally everything looked correct and …

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As the Sun Sets…

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over Steeprock Mountain, the sounds of wham, crash, wham are heard in the very near distance.  The birds are quiet. And the big track hoe continues its methodical work…I look and then I see what the noise is all about. The man that purchased the farm next to us is tearing down the old barn.   …

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Simply A Country Girl’s Heart…

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As a young girl I was told I could do anything! Nothing was impossible! I could do and be anything I wanted to be!! I remember asking President? and told YES!  I also remember a sly smile from Daddy indicating his happiness of my line of thinking! I am sure a mere country girl from …

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