I have been feeling, these days, incredibly be blessed to be here, in our beloved Valley, enjoying the tender new spring.  This time of year, driving past other greening farms, I wonder how anyone could choose to live anywhere else, or live any other kind of life.
In June, sometimes, in the crazy scramble to get ...
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I’m grateful for the fall, which lays bare the bones of the land again, showing us her curves and beauty.  The mountains appear sometimes as we drive up and down these hills, the stones walls peek out from beneath the fallen leaves.

Grateful for these healthy lambs, which are getting so big!  Someone else is getting ...
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We woke up early Wed morning to bleating.  Ben said, “Do you hear those new lambs?” and I lept out of bed, waking Ella.  She started crying but when Ben told her the new lambs were here, she jumped to her feet, too, tears filling her eyes, hand to her mouth, saying, “Oh, I had ...
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her fleece was white as snow (lanolin-covered snow, that is). Meet Clover, our sweet little ewe lamb, born Wednesday.  My dad was in the backyard putting up fence, walked over the hill for less than 10 minutes, and came back to see a little white lump on the ground – Clover!  Curly surprised us all ...
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More from last week’s bean planting . . .

And have I mentioned that our two ewes are hugely pregnant?  Oh yes, there is that . . .

For now, we’re feeding our girls kale and red raspberry leaves fresh from the garden, and keeping a close eye. I’ve got my Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable ...
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Some quick thoughts before we get on with Gratitude Friday.  I’ve found myself, over the last year, listening to (and reading) the news less and less.  I do get some environmental and food activism alerts via email, and I hear about major world events.  I used to listen to NPR daily, and really felt some ...
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It so often seems, by the end of the week, that the day when I feel the least gratitude is the day I need to remember it the most.  Tonight (Thursday late) Ella was up late, and once I finally accepted that we were going to be up for a while, it went fine.  If ...
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We did it!  Today, while Ella played in the piles of hay, and a few bemused neighbors looked on (they happened to walk over at just the right moment), we sheared our first sheep.

I knew that Molly would be way skinnier when we were done of course, but it was so funny to see ...
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This week, I’m grateful for the restorative powers of a calm day at home.
I’m grateful for this yoga sequence, which rescued me from serious back pain.
Grateful for this quote from Ella, as we were on our way to a grain meeting: “. . . and I’m going to talk about emmer!”
Grateful for this reminder from ...
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