Autumn bring a bit of mixed emotions for me. In some ways the beauty of the changing leaves and that special smell that comes in the air along with the promise of the holidays makes it a very special time of year, and yet, the end of gardening season, the looming long, cold winter months [...]
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Autumn Splendor
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adventures as a would be garlic farmer
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had decided to put in an herb garden this year. I’ve never had one, but I’ve always wanted one. Anyway, I was looking for things that I wanted to plant, one of them being garlic. Well, in my quest for suitable seed stock I ran across a site of a family that grows garlic [...]
Cow Problems
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back this past winter my husband bought me a dairy cow. The sweetest Jersey cow that’s a joy to milk, but she has also been a handful!! She is bound and determined to go on, what we affectionately call, “unathorized field trips”. She jumps almost every fence man ever invented. Every barbed wire fence that [...]
Missing in Action
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a long time since I’ve written. First I got pregnant with Ember and it was a long and trying pregnancy not feeling well through most of it and developing toxemia toward the end and ending up being bed ridden for the last two months and then losing sweet Ember when she was 3 [...]
Was that a goat I just saw?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What we hardcore animal raisers will do to get an animal home! Dear hubby decided that we needed milk as well as meat around here and so the decision was made to sell the Boer goats and go on the hunt for dairy goats. We found some about 2 hours from us and with great [...]
Winter Reflections
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, Christmas is over and the year is quickly coming to an end. I found myself yesterday unburying myself from a mountain of empty boxes, wrapping paper and new toys that were strewn from one end of the house to the other.
Today I recaptured my living room from the Christmas tree, took down the wreath [...]
New additions
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t written in awhile. Things have been so hectic and so much going on that I don’t think I could have settled my thoughts down long enough to write if I wanted to. On August 4th we met with Steve in MO to pick up our Angora goat does. They had [...]
Breather
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the 4th of July is officially over. My parents came over and that was nice since we very rarely ever get visitors since we’re so far out, but by evening I was worn out and ready for bed.
We had a thunderstorm roll in about 5:00 and my parents left early rather than be stuck [...]
A little time off
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Even farmers and ranchers need a day off and so we decided to visit the Sedgwick County zoo. I hadn’t been there for years and I must say that it has GROWN! It’s almost too big to cover in 1 day especially on a 95 degree day with no wind and with a 3 year [...]
Gardening
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Squash plants
Spring is one of my favorite times of years because it is then that I get to watch my husband with anticipation as he runs our rear tine tiller through the garden, breaking the dirt that the winter snows and rains have worked so hard to compact.
We don’t have the ideal soil here. It’s [...]
