We buried our kitty yesterday. We are feeling a little more peace and hurting a little less each day. Staying busy helps too; and we have plenty to keep us busy around here. Here are some of them: We are now mobile! And I don’t mean phones. We bought a Kawasaki Mule this week. It’s

After my pet rabbit, Arthur, passed away in 2008, I said I would never have another animal in the house again. He was special and I wanted to live with his memory for a while, but another reason I didn’t want another animal in the house was because of the fur. He was a hairy

If you don’t know the story of how we came upon our farm house (not a “farmhouse,” as in the farmhouse style, but the house on our farm) it was fate. We wanted to build, but our survey company had a different plan. Two years into waiting for the septic plans to be submitted to

I technically asked Jamie out for our first date. I was in college and only a few weeks from going home for the summer after my sophomore year. He was dragging his feet and I was impatient. He had given me a CD of his latest project at the time (see below), which happened to

The kids have been on Spring break this week, but we have been working non-stop. We fertilized trees, worked on clearing the trees from the spot we want our farm driveway to go, tilled up the garden area, and planted trees, among other things. I am usually part of the manual labor force on our

We try to eat most of our meals at home. If we are going to make the effort to go out, we like to make it special. In March of 2017 we had only been in our house on the farm for a month and we were still exploring the fun unique restaurants in our

This year February went out like a lion for us. I suppose it was shielding March, who usually gets blamed for that kind of weather. Last week, there was a particularly windy day. Nutmeg was barking all day long so I didn’t pay her much attention. After I clocked out I was standing on the