Confessions of a Farm Wife

I have a kindergartner. My Josie is 6. There was a Josephine in the classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary who was killed. She was 6.And I can hardly process it.I can only imagine her mother. I can see her how I would be, or so I think and hope to never go there. Lost, hollow, so sad, and angry.In light ... Read More about I Have a Kindergartner

Well, we lost our dog yesterday.Yes, that makes three dogs we have lost to our stupid, dusty, seemingly untraveled road (if you were just to look at it from a glance, but if I put a counter on it, you would think we live in a city...and don't even get me started the stupid drunks who travel it ... Read More about Life and Death, Again

Did you know we could use a rain?Do you feel like you have read this before?Well, you have, but considering it's December and we haven't had a rain, a good, soaker since, well, Joe can't even remember, we're in dire need.Again.Again with the freaking drought.I thought droughts were just summertime ... Read More about Dusty Roads and Dry Lakes

So it's the last day of Holly's 30 Day Challenge, and because I've always been a bed maker, in-the-line colorer, rule follower, I am sorry that I missed two days of the challenge.One being yesterday, and it wasn't because I was at home with the kids with the power off...that would be Joe, who I ... Read More about Day 30: Rule Follower

Nope.Not me.The mama cows.Yesterday Joe spent the majority of his day "in the southbound end of a northbound cow" (one of my least favorite phrases ala Joe Webel). The vet, the vet tech (who is a woman, a friend of my friend, and who evidently was keeping Joe in check when he was making comparisons ... Read More about Day 28: Preg Check