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“P” Stands for Poison

Did you catch the news this weekend?
Over 500 MILLION eggs were recalled due to Salmonella from two of the largest egg producers in the Mid West. Here are some of the names they were sold under….look at how “farm like” and pure the names sound……Dutch Farms, Farm Fresh, Hillandale, Kemps, Lucerne, Lund, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s, [...]

When The Cows Come Home

Josie left exactly 1 month ago today in a horse trailer pulled by my friend Judy. It was not terribly difficult getting her in. We had two pulling from the head and one pushing from the rear. She went up the ramp in less than 15 minutes. Which isn’t bad. I understand that sometimes you [...]

My Morning In Pictures

You know I can’t go a day without words…..Hey a woman has 25,000 words a day to speak and frankly I never get in my quota.
Mary Ann is a milker in training. She was and is the perfect mother, however she is not the perfect milker.
If you remember, Ginger was clueless about being a mother [...]

Roasted Tomatoes

I was roasting tomatoes for sauce when we ran into a new favorite.

I had maybe 15-20 lbs of tomatoes and figured it was time to can a few pints. My friend, Throwback At Trapper Creek, told me that this is how she makes sauce, so I knew it must be good.
I washed, cored and took [...]