Farm Life

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Quarter Century

Spring signals a rebirth of life here at our place, and it seems fitting that we have a whole slew

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Three Flocks

In the middle of winter, I start seriously looking forward to spring. I want to have my hands in the

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Day of Perfection

Sometimes, I think people get the wrong impression about living on a hobby farm, like it’s all green grass and

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No Going Back

A little over ten years ago, I was huddled in bed, listening to a raging blizzard outside our Iowa homestead.

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In the Tree Tops

Yellowstone was only the very beginning of our mountain adventures. At Old Faithful, we met up with two of Jack’s

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Evelyn is Eleven

Ever since Zoey and then Peter joined our family, it feels like we have a month of nonstop birthdays in

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My Hero

Happy birthday to my hero! I have tried–started and stopped, started, then stopped again–to write something celebrating Jack’s thirty-fifth birthday.

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Earthen Oven

The kids were super excited at the prospect of having some extra time off of school even before their spring break

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The Chocolate Cow

Babies are so sweet! Last year, we bought another Jersey cow to be Dolly’s pasturemate. The goal was to be

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Down But Not Out

Evelyn and Peter have a few thoughts about the start of 2020. 😂 At the beginning of every year, I

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