Planning Time

With all the rain we’ve had here in Tennessee lately, it’s hard to believe that the growing season is just around the corner.

But the buds on trees and the seed catalogs in the mail tell a different story, and so it’s with excitement and some trepidation that we look forward to spring.

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Farmer Boy {lessons from life on the farm}

I love the Little House on the Prairie books. My favorite memory of time with my mother is of the two of us curled up on the blue couch in our formal living room (a special treat), sipping orange peel tea (an even more special treat), while she read The Long Winter aloud. Years later, reading Little House in the Big Woods to my little brood helped us survive our own long winter as we were transplanted into the Pacific Northwest. And just last summer, we were all enthralled by my husband’s voice as he brought On the Banks of Plum Creek to life for us in the beautiful cabin loaned to us while we waited to move into our barnhouse.

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