June Mish-Mash
I keep waiting to have something interesting to say, but it doesn’t seem to be happening this week. I think I’m too tired from all the promotion. So here’s just a mish-mash of stuff: 1) I have 11 promotional events in June—3 left, and then I can hibernate for six weeks. I’m having lots of […]
Would I Choose to Farm Again?
At one of my recent presentations, a man in the audience asked if I would do it all over again, meaning choose to farm. It was a fair question, but hard to answer. I can’t ‘un-know’ all I’ve learned during the last fifteen years, so if Melissa were to once again ask me to help […]
The Duck Saga Continues
A month ago I wrote about our duck, Mr. Bodgepie, being startled by a neighbor’s dog and flying a mile to the south. Neighbor Bill saw the duck and called us. I ‘visited’ Bodgepie several times, but couldn’t catch him. And Melissa agreed that if she went down there with a net, she’d be so […]
Memoirist Caught Telling Lie
James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) and Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea)? Move over. There’s a new memoirist in town who’s been caught lying. In my first memoir, Hit by a Farm, I wrote about a doll I had as a child. The Jane West doll had bendable arms and legs, ugly tan plastic […]
How do we (as in all of us) do it?
It’s been a week since I’ve posted. Darn. And I was doing so well there for awhile. The good news is that I’m managing. I’m keeping the animals fed, moving them from pasture to pasture. I’m weaning the baby calves—down from 3 bottles a day to one. I know which ones are likely to sneak […]