Tag: rural life
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April 18, 2009 06:26 AM EDT --
Hey Everyone,
Please wish my boys luck this morning!!! Today is the 4-H Area Horse Judging Competition.
We do not own a horse, and this is their first time going to the Horse Judging Competition. . . .
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April 18, 2009 09:29 PM EDT --
What can I say but THANK YOU! to all my Gather friends for their positive thoughts!!!!
Ohio Co Senior Horse Judging Team which includes my oldest son, qualified to go to the State Competition!! . . .
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October 13, 2008 06:36 AM EDT --
TODAY IS CANADA 'S THANKSGIVING
It looks like another fine day coming up. I have walked the dog, checked the computer for Robert's mail and am . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
Autumn, with all its blazing beauty, its whispering winds and its dying leaves dramatically reminds me that time is passing. . . .
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February 11, 2009 08:25 PM EST --
Farm Pond
First stubble, then steps of chimney stone;
The water’s sweet as birch sap, warm as blood.
Cut-paper lilies, frogs sliding among
Plump lily pads that poke from soft brown mud.
Dragonfly, . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know that I won't be here very much the rest of this week . . . . I need to get the farm accounting work done, so we can get our taxes done on Saturday. . . .
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April 15, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
It has a been very productive around the farm this last week . . . .
My husband came home on 4/6, so that he would be home to take care of the animals when the boys went to their 4-H Livestock Judging . . .
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December 01, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
I was running errands in Rockingham County, west of Harrisonburg, and stopped along Whitmore Shop Road to take photos of barns, farms and interesting buildings.
These barns and buildings . . .
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May 15, 2008 11:27 PM EDT --
I always thought I gave away my small town country roots in every conversation I have ever had. I called the city nearest my small town, "The City", common terminology in a small town, . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
I found a vet who would work on our little girl about an hour away, so last Thursday (3/19/09), we drove her up.
The vet was late getting back to the office. So we waited for over . . .
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August 01, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
We went to visit the chicks today, and of course took more photos. They have grown so much! Their soft fuzz is starting to be replaced with feathers, and their faces are taking on a more mature appearance. . . .
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October 16, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
fancy
how your soft waves
bejewelled with the sunshine
lapped the shore then carried me out
charming . . .
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January 08, 2007 07:57 PM EST --
Redneck Rules of Etiquette
General
-Never take a beer to a job interview.
- Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them.
- It's considered tacky to take a cooler . . .
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March 14, 2009 11:56 AM EDT --
Life has been hecktic around here recently as our kidding season has finally gotten underway with the dairy goats.
All of our dairy goats give birth, and the kids are removed at that time . . .
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December 03, 2009 12:44 AM EST --
My favorite artist ( Bruce of course) and my favorite farm. When I am very old and living in a cozy room, I want this painting on my wall so I can remember the lovely life we had . . .
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May 21, 2008 06:25 PM EDT --
It's been a good day in Carleton County, New Brunswick. Everyone in my family--if not exactly perpendicular--is still . . .
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October 27, 2009 02:44 PM EDT --
My friend Sarah A posted an article a couple of days called Living in the Woods . The blues is universal and, of course has a lot to say on this topic. In the 1920s Detroit piano player Charlie . . .
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February 24, 2009 08:14 AM EST --
Before I went off to college, I spent three summers working in a small town in Missouri--even smaller than the county seat where I grew up--harvesting fescue.
Fescue is a type of . . .
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March 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT --
Goat meat is eaten more worldwide than beef. Really you ask. Over 70%of the world population eats goat meat. About 63% of the red meat eaten worldwide is goat meat.
In this country, a . . .
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September 08, 2009 12:38 AM EDT --
Autumn
each year's
sweet exhale...
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