25 Oct 2021 – 7 Jan 2022 Hey y’all! A few months ago, I heard about the #75Hard Challenge online. An acquaintance of mine was doing it, and it sounded interesting. For the last year, I have been trying to get healthier, exercise and eat right and drink water. I would try for a few days or weeks and then…
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Safety
Hey Y’all! Last night I went to feed and water the pigs. In the darkness, I heard the bleating of sheep and goats. I was a little confused. Did the goats jump over the fence to get the pigs’ corn? I wouldn’t put it past them! Through the glare of my truck’s headlights, I saw them on the hill behind…
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Counting Sheep
Hey Y’all! When I was a kid, I tried counting sheep when I couldn’t sleep. This morning, however, I sat in front of our metal farm gate counting the sheep I could see in our nine acre field, to make sure all were accounted for! Something else I did as a young girl was write. Even in first grade, I…
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Farm Animals are like Kids
Not the baby goat kind, but the human kind. Hey Y’all! Our children have grown up and moved on. Several years ago, we stopped milking our herd, as we wanted to get them on a better birthing schedule, and we had fewer hands doing the work. In our efforts to produce fresh, natural, healthy food, we got some cows from…
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Why a Farming Blog?
Hey Y’all! Just thinking about why I’m writing this blog. For the past year, almost every day as I would go out to take care of our farm, I would think of something to write about (I’m a writer at heart, ever since first grade, but that’s another story)…either something funny would happen, or I’d think of a life lesson…
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