by Andi | Aug 31, 2014 | animals, chickens, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas, Meander
It’s been a busy few days around here – with prepping for our first showing yesterday and our home inspection on the new place. And this morning, we woke to find that the big sassafras behind the house had split off a huge limb that we must now chop up.... by Andi | Aug 14, 2014 | animals, Meander
Ferguson, Missourri. Gaza and Israel. Iraq. Robin Williams’ suicide. So much sadness. So much injustice. So much right and righteous anger. I feel both guilty and grateful for this refuge just now. The guilt comes from some sense – perhaps misguided but... by Andi | Jul 13, 2014 | animals, Buildings, Great Pyrenees, Meander
This morning, a breeze that promises rain confirmed by upturned leaves is shooing away the humidity like beauty itself. From where I sit, I can see a hummingbird sitting on our clothesline, taking a gander at her land. I’m on our back porch, and I find myself... by Andi | Jul 10, 2014 | animals, Buildings, Great Pyrenees, Meander, Uncategorized
Sometimes I want to downplay what we’re doing here on the farm as “lesser,” to diminish our dreams and hard work because we aren’t moving hundreds of free range animals to new pasture each day or because we aren’t planting crops and... by Andi | Jun 26, 2014 | animals, chickens, Garden, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas, Meander
I saw them the other day, and it was like I had new eyes – fields and fields of wildflowers, growing just beside the roads I drive all the time. Queen Anne’s Lace and Black Eyed Susans. Cornflowers sprouting from gravel and dancing in the whish of...