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Warm
It was a day of picking up sticks around the yard, updating farm bookwork, washing the floors, baking bread, and other typical Saturday chores. I love blue sky farm days especially when I…
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Bird brains
while our chickens are fun, and certainly great egg producers. They also are typical bird brains ! yesterday, we moved their coop from one side of the shop to the other. Their food…
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Winter on the farm
Winters in the Midwest are unpredictable. One week it might be ice and snow, the next rainy, the next very temperate. One thing I miss in the winter is that we don’t see…
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Preparations
as I prepared some extra baking, sourdough loaves, and single pot dinners this week for Chuck, as I am away for our leadership conference, I found comfort in these comfort foods. it is…
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Eat
We settled around the table this afternoon with friends to eat chili and catch up. It was the first meal on our new table , and a belated birthday hooray for my pal,…
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2024
2024 and a dusting of snow made life on the farm feel crisp and quiet. We walked the woods and enjoyed the solitude. Botto found it exhilarating and, well, comfortable?!
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New
New year, new opportunity , new adventure or new challenge; here we come! This year Chuck learned what a charcuterie board was and built a few. We learned to raise squirrels orphans and…
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Family Faith Friends
Setting the table for breakfast in the morning, I put the table runner down. It was a gift and this is the first time I used it. The words on it made me…
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Egg … fight
A rooster rustle tussle started the day along with a couple fresh eggs from our first laying hen. Little farm moments that remind us how blessed we are to be here. The roosters…
