winter wake up call
For the past few years, I have noticed a moment late in winter when I worry whether I can do it all again. Somewhere past the holidays and even past the worst of the cold but too far from true…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Tag farm life
little lady marigold xoxo
Little Lady Marigold is the precious, diminutive, wild sheep I have always wanted. She is opinionated, lucid, brave, and full of energy. She got her fancy name by two strokes of beautiful timing. First, I asked Handsome and Jessica separately…
friday 5 at the farm: sometimes manure rolls uphill and Alexa, add body wash to the shopping list!
ONE: Sometimes manure rolls uphill, and compost is a miracle. If the field is quite dry and the breeze is strong enough, it is very normal for horse manure to roll uphill, away from my season. This phenomenon panicked me…
a happy, messy look back at 2021
Closing out the year 2021, I feel maybe more wide-eyed and open-hearted than ever in my life, which is wonderful. I also feel a bit weirded out by how quickly time has been passing. Lots of my friends feel this…
and just like that…
Just now while doing breakfast chores, I was praying for Jocelyn and something wonderful happened. For several days I have been aggressively and tediously flaking hay for the bachelors from what is perhaps the most tightly wound large bale I…
ducks, geese, & some related marital advice
Rick Astlee the One Eyed Duck is, really and truly, living his best life. In many ways he seems worlds happier than before the incident last winter, and if you could spend a few days with him I think you…