October is, hands down, my favorite month. My birthday is in October– an obvious bonus– but it’s so much more than that. While September is…
It’s Going To Be Messy
The hay wasn’t cut at the normal time this year. Somehow that seemed exactly right for 2020, the year when nothing has happened per the…
Summer Projects
The warm weather finally arrived in more than day-long jaunts, meaning that summer feels as if it’s come fully.
Fighting Weariness
It’s rained every day for the past three days— hard at times. While rain is good for growing crops, deluges are not. I’ve been listening…
Putting in the Garden
The garden has, as we say, been put in.
The Spring Stretch
Spring is one of my favorite times here in East Tennessee. As is summer (growing season), autumn (fall color), and winter (still warm enough to…
For When They Look Back
Remember that spring when everything stopped? Remember when your older sister and brother came home for a week of break and just… stayed? Remember when…
Farm Business
If you learn nothing living on a farm, you learn that life does, indeed, go on. Even after something as ugly as The Great Chicken Massacre,…
The Great Chicken Massacre
I am grateful every day for the opportunity the Lord has given us to live here on this farm. The fact that my children can enjoy…
Unexpected
I come from a family of weather watchers. I suppose it was born from our agricultural background and reliance on God’s provisional balance of sun…