When I first started feeding calves, I loved it. My husband would do chores and then come finish milking for me so I could fill a couple buckets of milk and go convince the calves that a bucket is just as good as a bottle. Then work started piling up and my husband wasn’t able…
This past summer was one of the most difficult summers of my life. There were incredible highs where memory-making once-in-a-life-time things happened, and incredible lows where we faced loss and sorrow in a very deep and life-altering way. It was a bit like the year I got married, which was also the year I began…
He snuggles close on my lap, dear boy with tears dripping, heart as broken as the toy that fell apart. “Can you smile?” I ask, brushing droplets away. An emphatic shake of the head. No. No smiles. So I wink and draw in a shocked breath, “You lost your smile?” I clutch him tight,…
I’m wearing four layers of clothing while we work in the barn. The wind is whipping across Tug Hill and biting my exposed skin when I step outside. My husband comes through, “We need to run to town for fuel,” he says. So I jump in the truck. We’re only stopping at the bank and…
The Great Syrup War began in early ’09 and it still continues to this day. History books are a little sketchy on how it started. We do know there was coffee involved. Little else is concrete. We know that two main perpetrators started throwing numbers around. Which is terribly dangerous, of course. And these weren’t just…
They say the only things sure in life are death and taxes. I beg to differ. Laundry is a pretty sure thing. Maybe not the actual doing of laundry but most definitely the need to do laundry. My first home was a log cabin (I did learn to read there but that is where my similarities to Abraham Lincoln…
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