Nature

I wrote this poem this morning as I was looking out my bedroom window, hearing the breeze blow through the trees and watching the sheep grazing in the pasture, along with the gorgeous sunrise.  That view will never get old.  The sound of the wind in the trees reminded me of ocean waves rolling onto...Read More

Gardening has been on my mind so much lately because I have been spending a lot of time envisioning, dreaming about, designing, and creating my dream garden over the past several weeks.  I find that a lot of the thoughts and impressions that I have about gardens want to be expressed, so I wrote this...Read More

I’ve written about this before, so if you’ve been here for a while then this won’t be new but I wanted to make a separate post about it because it means so much to me. I never imagined that I would have sheep someday.  I don’t think it had ever crossed my mind.  Not until...Read More

I made my very first sweater from our sheep wool (and my first sweater ever)!  It was quite the process and I think that between washing and carding the wool, spinning the yarn, and knitting the sweater, it probably took me about 150 hours to complete.  I made it for Jershon for Christmas and although...Read More

After we went under contract on our house/land last fall, Jershon and I flew out a few days later so we could see it in person.  As we were walking around the land, we saw this cedar tree and I told Jershon that it would be the perfect place for the kids to make a...Read More

When we got Remi, the pig, a few weeks ago, we knew that she was pregnant.  The previous owners said that she had been “exposed” (bred) in April and since pig gestation is typically 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, we figured that she should be due around the end of July or early...Read More