• Family,  Goats,  Grow,  Poultry

    Shown, Unshown – July into August

    Oh, how I’ve missed you all! And so here I am again, trying to document and share after being absent from this space for much longer than I’d hoped, planned, or anticipated! Realizing it is mid-August (how the heck did that happen), we’re way past due for a catch-up and so, instead of baraging you with 15 different posts, I’ll…

  • Bees & Pollinators

    The Hummingbird

    Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating…

  • Ducks,  Family,  Grow

    In the Garden – Mid July

    I’ve found myself wondering (once again) where the time has gone. It was said when I was a kid that the older I’d get, the faster time would pass… The busier I’d get, the more responsibilities I’d have, the faster moments would slip through my fingers. I didn’t believe it, though. Nor did I need to because, at the time,…

  • Grow,  Journal Entries

    Cultivation

    I took the day off of work today and gifted myself some space and time to just be. No work or email or online miscellaneous (until now 😉 ). No chores, no lists. I made an agreement with myself to do nothing I didn’t want to do. Faced with this freedom, I spent the early hours of the morning in…

  • Chickens,  Ducks,  Family,  Goats,  Grow,  Poultry,  Turkeys

    Shown, Unshown – May into June

    This post could have easily be called, “On remembering why we started”. Though I microblog a lot these days, there are times I’m not sure how to even address the battles happening on the farm and within myself… And so I wait to find the right words at the right times to put in this space so as to properly…