Thanksgiving ’09- I review my gratitude list throughout the day. A space between thoughts to search for the gift of the PRESENT. What a blessing to have family and friends. It is fascinating to be the oberver of happenings with a child like curiousity and playfulness that seeps into my writings. I tell my close [...]

Nov. 13th, ’09-I took Hawken to sitter Chelsea, for 4 hours. Time to get back to Welcome Home Farm and work our cows with Doc Tom. Pure contentment for me to take good care of our animals. The satisfaction that comes from working and caring for the animals is monumental for me. It’s just goosebumps [...]

Nov. 11th, ’09-Crinkled cornstalks scrunch against the screaming call of Fall. Leaves fall, temperatures fall and daylight diminishes as we creak our way to Winter. Lackluster leaves torpedo across the hay field lane. I’m rumbling along @ 10 AM on our 5200 John Deere tractor. I slow for the chickens to cross the yard . The [...]

Nov. 9th,’09-A perfect day to rodeo it up @ Welcome Home Farm. We usher the belloring bossies to the back of the cattle lot. Doc Tom and I working silently and just subtley spread the herd towards confinement. It’s a mish mash of Mama’s wanting their 6 month old calves @ their sides. The beef [...]

Oct.  ’09-Thirty five degrees I read on the handy dandy thermometer that sits on the shelf above the washing machine. I pull on my insulated cover-alls and fumble for  notepad and pen. I have my favorite John Deere pen and a blue flip mini-tablet to trace the AM’s events.  My mind is searching for a [...]

Second week of Nov. ’09- Larry Jungwirth-the insurance guy, has been great help @ the conventions and Open Houses this past year.  He’s the designer of Larry’s Coon Catcher that’s featured on our website and also available in our Showroom.  The last part of  Oct., Larry set out 6 coyote traps and caught 4 coyotes. One pulled out [...]

Oct. 4th, ’09-It’s 6:15 PM and I have Jake the goat breathing heavy in my ear. He’s wanting re-assurance that I relish his company even though he’s decided my perennial flower bed is a smorgasboard. He tugs @ the frozen zinnias, up-roots phlox and prances about the yard taunting Billie Goat and me. He smiles as [...]

Nov. ’09-Leaves lie limp and lifeless on the lawn. Curling, dried and weary from hanging onto Maple Tree. Hammock Hangout is refuge for YooHoo Chicken and the flock. Hawken’s tire sandbox’s ply-board lid has slid and 1/2 the sand is saturated from rain. A toy dump truck awaits a warm, sunny day. I lift the [...]

Oct. 3,  ’09-Filling the pets water buckets I stooped over and picked up the woolly bear caterpillar. It wrapped it’s hold tighter around my pointer finger and I admired the orange and black. I gently placed the creature under the canopied protection of one of Tom’s giant hosta leaves. I chose the striped hosta to shelter the caterpillar. [...]

Sept. 29, ’09-YooHoo chicken greets me as I step off the porch. The door on Poultry Palace stayed open last night! I hope the 3 new Barred Rock Pullets survived. They’ve been laying the rich brown toned eggs that Hawken loves to gather. YooHoo is eyeing me up and follows me to the geese pen. I let [...]