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Throwback Thursday–Reflecting
Two years ago on Christmas, my Mom gave me a book. It was the story of this young couple and their life together: farming, family and faith. It was a true love story—it was my parents love story! The gift was something that she had worked on all year...
read moreA Blessing and A Curse
Happy 2023 friends! We hope that your year has started out wonderfully and that you are busily planning your kidding, lambing, or whatever spring adventures await you. It has been a very long time since I have taken the opportunity to give an update on the farm and...
Giving Thanks & Planning for 2020
As things begin to fall asleep for the winter here at the farm, autumn seems to always be the time that we can truly spend time thinking about how blessed we are to live on this beautiful little piece of heaven and what a privilege it is to have the responsibility to...
When Life Gives You Lemons…10 tips for running your farm after illness or injury
I have been remiss in my blogging for most of the year and was commenting to Shaun last night at milking chores how I really needed to get a blog post done, but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I told him that since this spring on the farm has been so difficult...
What’s In A Name?
I think one of my favorite things to do on the farm is to name the babies. We have a long list of names that we keep on the white board and add to when we hear a really good goat-worthy name, but somehow, when the babies arrive, they seem to just ‘tell us’ their...
Perspective and Priorities
Life never ceases to amaze me. You stumble along thinking everything is going okay, heck, you might even utter to your partner something about, “how have we been blessed with such a perfect life?” and then just like that, life throws you a curve-ball. Sometimes it...