Getting older
I wanted to write something profound, funny, pithy, and wise to explain my long absence from this blog. Unfortunately, I’m not having a profound, funny, pithy, or wise season. I’m simply feeling old and grumpy....
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Summer things
Fresh peaches from a nearby orchard . . . . . . and sweet ripe blackberries, picked from a neighbor’s garden patch are this summer’s consolation prizes. We’ve very little to harvest in our own gardens now. ...
Read MoreOne Day At A Time
The lack of updates here at The Land of Moo might lead one to believe I’ve been wallowing in grief over the demise of my beloved old Blue. Not so. He is missed, of course, but we’re pragmatic here on the farm about...
Read MoreMisty Mornings
On rare mornings a mist spills evenly across the land to soften the sun’s rays. On these mornings, the heavy dew would soak you to the waist if you wandered across that ungrazed pasture. In the stillness, you hear the...
Read MoreBarbed Wire Yard Art
Disposing of old, rusty barbed wire can be a problem. If you have an old farm with weathered fences and decades-old wire, it’s something that must be figured out. Yard art wouldn’t have been my first thought, but...
Read MoreSweet, sweet sunshine
A sunny day after so much rain, after so many gray days, is a gift that shouldn’t be wasted. A dozen chores awaited, but so did the sunshine. There were skies to watch, clouds to study, reflections to ponder. So I...
Read MoreRain, rain, go away
Mother Nature apparently thinks we haven’t had enough rain lately, so she sent us more. Day two of the driveway flooding scoured knee-deep holes. Another night-time storm brought more flash flooding. This time the big...
Read MoreThings I Wish I Could Move to the Farm
I spent last weekend at one of the houses where I raised my children. And although I moved the most important bits and pieces I’m attached to when I moved to the farm, there are a few more things I wish could have taken...
Read MoreHappy Mother’s Day
It’s a day to celebrate mothers and grandmothers and those who’ve simply mothered us even though they weren’t the ones who brought us into this world. I think, too, that it’s a good day to recall the...
Read MoreThe View From My Window
Sometimes the view out the truck window seems a little off kilter. Other times, it’s so enticing I’m tempted to park the truck by the ditch, slip through the fence, and walk over the hill just to see what’s on...
Read MoreWhen It Rains All Day . . .
Farm chores are messier on rainy days. There’s the mud. There’s the wet underbrush you have to run through and the rising creek you wade through while chasing escaped calves back through the hole in the fence. You...
Read MoreLandscape Therapy
Sometimes, on busy days in busy weeks, when there’s too much to do and too much bad news, it’s soothing to just pull off the road and take a moment to look at the sky. Focus first on the large, cottony clouds as they...
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