Happy New Year Everyone! January 1st of 2016 surprised me with a nearly perfect blue sky. Having spent weeks overwhelmed by my Season of Gray, the blue sky was the perfect antidote to my
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Jeremiah pulled the covers back and kissed me goodbye at about 7:30. I was still in bed, unmotivated to get up and start my Sunday. "I put fly masks on the horses and scrubbed the trough. The
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Hi Everyone! It seems I've been gone for two whole weeks! Weird. And unintended. Also weird? It's been just over a year since I started almostfarmgirl.com. Since then, almost 200 of
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The sky is blue fading black. Snow blankets the ground. Not deep snow, but enough to cover the mud and the muck and the browned out remnants of fall and summer. It’s unmolested, still a perfect
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The snow falling outside my office window in the Heights probably means many things to many people. For me, it's a gently falling reminder that old man winter beat us back to the ranch. We still
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Between my husband's insane shoeing schedule, and a week-long church conference that he attends every year, I've been on my own a lot lately. (I start a lot of posts kind of like this, don't
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In addition to the twenty-eight llamas and alpacas at our place, Jeremiah shears roughly a dozen llamas and alpacas for other people. Some of them are better than others. A few stand as well as our
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Can I just start by saying how blessed I am to have such an amazing husband? I know, some of you are probably sick of hearing about him, but yesterday, when I came up to him while he was in the