Elaine | October 5, 2011
We have had a busy summer here on the farm. July was the month for company. We had my Sister-in-Law Tracy, her daughter Alison and her granddaughter McKenna. It was a ton of fun to have them here for a week. McKenna and I did lots of stuff in the barn. She is a natural [...]
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Elaine | June 8, 2011
Wow it is unbelievable to me that it has been a month since I posted. Life happens fast in the spring. I finally got the garden planted and the garlic harvested. The beans are blooming and so are the potatoes and the tomatoes and peas. It has been so hot lately that I was afraid [...]
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Elaine | May 2, 2011
We got a new piece of farm equipment this weekend. It is a used EZ-Go cart with a bunch of attachments. This thing even has a cover and a heater! As you can see I have yet to use this. They boys have loved driving it around though. The Driver’s License is not to far [...]
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Elaine | March 2, 2011
Sophie had her puppies early Sunday morning and didn’t deliver her last pup until 3pm Sunday afternoon. It was a long day for her. These pictures are when they are a few hours old. Sophie delivered 12 puppies in all. We have 5 beautiful girls who survived. This was Sophie’s first time to be a [...]
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Elaine | February 7, 2011
Well, a few flurries were predicted for tonight after 6pm. No one thought much about it then because it was close to 50 degrees yesterday. Well, I looked out the window at 11:30am and it was snow-raining. It was very strange. It was clearly raining because there was water pouring out of the downspout and [...]
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Elaine | January 26, 2011
Well the system has arrived! We woke up to a winter wonderland. We have almost 4 inches of snow and it is still coming down. It started snowing last night around 11 pm. Quinn and I were looking at it come down right before going to bed and I made the mistake of doing a [...]
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Elaine | January 25, 2011
I’m back!….again. Gosh I have been really bad about posting…at least that is what I have heard from a few of my most loyal friends. I am truly sorry for my lapse of blogging and hope to do better. We had a wonderful white Christmas here in Nashville. Yes you heard me right! The first [...]
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Elaine | November 29, 2010
We are going to be HOME for Christmas this year! This is the first Christmas that my boys will ever remember being home. So I decided to do something a little different. I decided that we would make our own ornaments for the tree this year. We made gingerbread cookies, dried orange/lemon slices, and we [...]
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Elaine | November 7, 2010
I met the nicest lady today. She was selling The English curriculum that Jacob needed. I had to make an egg delivery and was hoping to meet her while I was in town. She was excited to hear that I had fresh eggs. We were chatting and she was telling me all about how her [...]
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Elaine | November 4, 2010
Meet Koopman. He is on loan from Lady K farm. Koopman is very sweet. I am not nervous around him at all except I don’t want him to brush up against me. I am sure he wants me to love on him but that is just not going to happen the way I love on [...]
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