Within a week of us buying our farm, I was visiting our cabin up north and came to notice that a neighbor who had moved suddenly had left her chickens. I saw them wondering on the road. This was at the end of winter when it was snowing and cold. I went over to inspect …
I was born in the sign of water, and it’s there that I feel my best. That is a song lyric from the hit song Cool Change, by the 1970’s group The Little River Band. Yes, I am a Pisces (water sign) and I do LOVE to take baths. I like the water HOT. I …
I am a woman. I think as a woman for whatever reason, be it advertising or social media pressures or whatever, we set ridiculous standards for ourselves. We all want to be perfect and this is simply not obtainable. We are HUMANS. Perhaps men feel the same pressures, but I’m going to talk about my …
During the summer when I was about 8 or 9 years old in the mid 70s, I was picking blackberries way out in a rural part of Southwestern PA, about an hour from where I live today. I happened to step upon a bed of yellowjackets and they attacked me. In a panic I was …
Winter into early spring is a time when a farmer girl like me gets impatient. I have caught up on my reading and bookmarked several new project ideas for the coming year. The greenhouse is readied to grow the seeds we have purchased. An organized planting schedule has been made. Hundreds of little pots and …