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Spring is for Working in the Dirt

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We’ve been busy planting, planting, planting around here since the weather improved. The crew’s gardening skills have really taken off this year and they’ve been doing a lot of independent work. It’s a new stage for us when they can manage the tools and plants with little or no supervision. We prepped the trellis fence line for beans and peas and set the seed potatoes out to callous. They should be ready to go in with the onions, beans, and peas later this week–as long as the rain hold off … Continue Reading…

Chickens and Flowers and Fruit…the Daily Farm Adventures {84}

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The weather’s been typical Tidewater spring lately. Hot and humid, muggy and thunderstorms, cool and buggy…usually all in one day! {smile} So we opened up the sides of the chicken house for more air flow–and a few bold ladies immediately wiggled themselves through the side panels and have been free-ranging it. I don’t even have the heart to be mad at them anymore. It’s been a 10 year battle, and they’ve won. And it’s never all of them. Usually just the same handful of trouble-makers. Frenchie here (one of our … Continue Reading…

There Is a Price…the Daily Farm Adventures {54}

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I can’t seem to get back everyday words after everything that’s happened the last couple weeks. After losing Grandma Koeller, and facing some lingering demons of my own, the end-of-the-school-year fervor and fuss (K5 graduations, spring concerts, field trips, sports tournaments, etc.) and then the transition to summer fun…it’s all just left me…tired. I have heavy thoughts and words that go with them, but little to offer about book lists or baking projects or summer picnics and popsicles. I find myself sitting in the truck in the driveway…looking over the fields … Continue Reading…

My Corner of the World

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We haven’t turned the air conditioning on in our house yet.  Big deal, you say.  It’s only May, you say.  It’s barely May, at that.  Ha!  This weekend it was 96 degrees plus humidity.  But I’m ok with that.  Why?  I mean, sure, it seems a little silly for it to be cooler outside than inside.  To go outside to escape the summer heat.  But the idea of saving $100’s this summer on a/c bills if we can just hold out until July is awfully appealing too, and I’ve found the sweet spot. … Continue Reading…

8 Tips for Carefree Flower Beds for Busy Moms

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I love having beautiful flowers blooming all around the house in the spring and summer, but I’m no green thumb! And a lot of the DIY garden articles I love to read and google do not have the same definition of “low maintenance” or “easy-care” that I do! I don’t even bother with indoor plants anymore and I have a long history of killing outdoor plants by neglect. I just get too busy for all the weeding, trimming, deadheading, watering, splitting and replanting. Besides, our vegetable garden takes up most of … Continue Reading…

Spring Time Things

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Wow, it’s been 40 and rainy, then sunny and 75, then sunny, but 50 this week already. Spring is definitely here in Virginia! We have 13 lambs now (and only 2 girls!) all healthy and happy. Unfortunately we had one stillborn from a set of twins just the other day. We weren’t there immediately, so I’m not sure exactly what happened. The smaller one (a little girl!) survived though, and is leading her momma on quite the little merry-go-round to keep up with her out there! The flowers are budding … Continue Reading…

Friends and Flowers…Thankful on a Thursday 07/14/2011

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My Cowboy brought me flowers this morning. Dandelions. They’re beautiful. I’m allergic. (But don’t ever tell my kids that!) I’m thankful for 3 healthy, bright-eyed kids. I’m thankful for their busy, rambunctious energy. (How many parents are watching their children lay in a hospital bed right this minute, wishing they could run and shout and play and get in trouble like normal kids?) I’m thankful for their strong bodies and clear, alert minds. I’m thankful for Penny. She makes me smile and laugh. She keeps me company when the kids … Continue Reading…

Thankful on a Thursday 04/28/2011

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I’ve already shared this week about feeling pretty down and missing my parents. I didn’t even bother posting on Tuesday because I didn’t have much to say. I’ve been crying and praying and moping and taking sinus medicine for a migraine all week. And I returned over and over to my old friend–my much underlined and corner folded book of Psalms. If you’re new to the Bible, might I suggest the Psalms? I have found so much comfort there over the last several years. Not only in the praise and … Continue Reading…

Fresh Thoughts

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The other half of my weekend (not described yesterday) was spent cleaning house and trying to get some of our gardens into shape.  I was so excited to find this on the counter from Mr. Fix-It… I’m not much of a gardener, but it’s starting to come together.  This lovely is from a brand new plant this year.  The 10 days of rain recently has really helped it along. Eventually I’m hoping beautiful, deep violet Clematis completely cover that boring, unattractive, unimaginative, but functional wire fencing.  (I do love having … Continue Reading…

Build Me Up, Buttercup

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Welcome to spring!  A time when things just start happening. One day your field looks like this… And four days later it looks like this… And the yard…don’t even get me started… I guess it could be worse.  I took a picture of this field on the way to the office.  And no, I didn’t have a couple margaritas for lunch, this is a terrible photographer’s efforts to take a picture of a hill. Don’t get me wrong.  I actually think it’s beautiful.  But buttercups are really just another dandelion … Continue Reading…

Let Them be Little

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Happy Spring?  Spring can be a tough season for me.  It’s very busy around here with lambing, chicks, gardening, and kids.  It’s also reminds me endlessly of losing my parents a few years ago.  I wrote about that some in a recent article for Everything Mom. But there ‘s so much to be excited for!  I don’t know what the first signs of Spring are for you, but here’s what Spring looks like for us… Calving… Gardening… And Lambing… Lambing is both exciting and exhausting.  There’s always a few problems that … Continue Reading…