Mar 07
Sitting in our living room on this grey rainy day makes me feel so peaceful…calm…all is right in my small part of the world…and it is! I watch as my sheep eat the fresh, sweet, green, tender grass…and I wonder…just, how good it must taste to them? It has been 160 days at least …
Aug 02
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
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 …
Jun 21
Well Drover sired a litter of 8 with Helen Glaze’s good female Frea and Helen has 4 male puppies ready for their new families! They are located in Gulfport, Mississippi KAT 3 days latter had a litter of 10 puppies and we have 2 males that are ready to go to their new homes! Yadkin …
Feb 27
I was looking at the puppies I see born on different websites (as always) and saw 2 beautiful Drover type looking litters. I checked them out and sure enough they were by the same sire! (NO RELATION TO DROVER) I did a bit of checking and he lives in Kentucky. KAT was in season and …
Jan 23
But then this is winter! We had a skiff of snow…seems Grandma’s predictions of how many fogs in August equals how many snows we will have in Winter holds true! (So far) …Yes I counted NO I do not remember exactly how many. I kind of thought it an old wife’s tale! While cold and …
Jan 09
She was born to a good Mama my sweet Amarillo…her good sire was “My” Dallas… I lost a good one today…There are not many words… A good dog that never bothered a thing or a soul… BOO was a good Mama…one of the best…she raised good puppies “Journey is one” and there are many ,many …
Oct 25
WOW! AN UP DATE ON THE HAPPENINGS AT MAPLE GROVE FARM… In March we held a very successful Jim Hartnagle Clinic! We learned so much and decided to hold a second Jim Hartnagle Clinic in October! KAT Ballou had puppies in March! Every month we have held Private Working Clinics. In April Jeanne Joy Hartnagle …
Jul 19
I have spent most of this lovely Sunday afternoon and evening in my bedroom writing. Listening to the birds and now crickets frogs…singing… and lambs calling softly to their Mothers…the breeze off the summer storms is cool and fresh and the sweet Magnolia blooms have been just heavenly…their sweet perfume hanging ever so softly in …
Jul 18
So much happening this Spring at Maple Grove Farm! LAMBS arrived in May, all 34 ( and lost only 2) so the total was 36! Ewes are all fine. And great Mothers! Even the Barbs ! I finally figured out how to be successful with them! A small field away from everything and tall grass= …
