This is an Osage orange tree (we sometimes call it a mock orange, but that's incorrect): The ball looking thing is the Osage orange tree...

Today I am happy my husband was around to get the wayward calves back inside the fence. Chasing cows is not my strong suit, though I have do...

Today I am happy because we had rain. We did not have flooding rain, at least not here (some of the neighboring communities did), but we had...

This year, we are making hay on someone else's property, which means driving equipment six miles to its destination. This requires multi...

I enjoy living in a rural area. I like the meadows, the mountains, the forests, the trees, the privacy. There are deer to watch as they boun...

After shivering in temperatures in the teens all weekend, this week the weather is going to offer us above-freezing temperatures both night ...

Last year, frankly, was not a good year for us. Everything that could break, broke, or so it seemed. My husband was constantly patching trac...

There are mountains back there, I swear. That's not a pile of low clouds, that's smoke. Not fog! Smoke!   Just a county over, maybe ...

  Today I am happy that my husband went to the grocery store. He had a few errands of his own to run and said he's stop so I wouldn'...

Today I was helpful on the farm! Honestly, I don't do much around here except take care of my man and do the bookkeeping. I keep an eye ...

  We didn't get the rain we needed, but today was a pretty day. It got a little humid after lunch as some storm clouds rolled through (t...

  Today I am happy because we have rain in the forecast. We still need rain. When the systems change over from el nino to la nina and vice...

For months now, we have watched the rain go around us. It went along the mountain ranges to our north and west and missed us almost entirely...

Healthcare Thursday, I saw my cardiologist for a follow-up on my echocardiogram. I am fine, except for "old age" issues. I have a ...

It's berry pickin' time here in ol' Virginia. The wineberries in particular are ripe, with the blackberries not far behind. Wine...

Early yesterday morning, just at daybreak and before we were out and about, one of our cows gave birth to a little bull calf. Watching, unbe...

 

When I was a young girl, about this time of year we'd go wineberry picking. Wineberries are an invasive species that are also good to ea...

My father decided this year to plant luffas. He said the seeds were $1 apiece. He bought six. He gave me one of the luffas last week. He sai...