Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go So make the best of this test and don’t ask why It’s not a question but a lesson learned in time It’s something unpredictable but in the end is right I hope you had the…
After a long day, complete with an unfortunate incident involving a deer and my vehicle, I have concluded that I no longer want to be an adult. I am officially resigning as a grown-up and immediately reverting back to a time when the most important things were: Splashing in mud puddles Snow days The ice…
Winter storm Juno is barreling toward the Northeast and we wait with anticipation. At the moment, we’re poised to get 1 to 30 inches of snow, depending on which weatherman you listen to (obviously, we don’t take much stock in the weather forecast around here). So, with boots and snow shovels at the ready, we…
Ah, goats… nature’s garbage disposal and self-appointed farm vandals. Given the opportunity, they will eat everything in their path. Mostly, it’s stuff I don’t want them to eat, like the bucket handle, the sprayer on the hose, the feed scoop, a roll of paper towels. You get the picture. With their incredibly sharp teeth and…
Every Alfredo sauce recipe that I’ve ever made has had heavy cream in it – but heavy cream is just not something that I usually have in the refrigerator. So, out of frustration, I decided to wing it and see if I could make an Alfredo sauce with just milk – 2% milk, no less.…
The clematis is one of those old-timey flowers that makes me think of farmhouses, white picket fences and the television show The Waltons. I have a vine that faithfully grows outside my back door. It is the first flower on the farm to herald the coming of spring and produces flowers that range in color…
A sudden snowstorm with whiteout conditions came through this afternoon and quickly blanketed everything with a few inches of snow – even the cows. They were not the least bit phased – most of them laid contently in the pasture, chewing their cud as the snow came down.
This afternoon, when I took the dogs for a run on the farm, they scared a red fox out from the underbrush. He took off across the frozen pond and left the daintiest trail of footprints.
It’s been TWO degrees here for days. One day the temperature crept up to a balmy FIVE degrees. That was followed by two nights of -10 degrees. At this point, it doesn’t matter what the thermometer says – it’s COOOOLD! Everything is frozen solid and it hurts to breathe when you’re outside. It’s time to…
Long story short… I fell in love with a lamp at Pottery Barn. However, the price was $170 and that didn’t include the shade. Because I love old things more than I like new things, I figured I could just make a lamp that looked like the one from Pottery Barn using an old glass…
We had a green Christmas this year. The girls spent the holiday soaking up the sunshine and belting out some Christmas carols.
The Farmers in the Dell 