A Farm Wife's Reflections

First, a quick note: This might be temporarily turning into a homeschool blog. You can laugh, but I’ve been in the process of unofficially “diagnosing”myself with ADHD. I watched some YouTube videos of how adults with ADHD behave. It’s me to a T. Having said that, one of the characteristics of ADHD is hyper-focus. We [...]

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future, or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be “better.” -Wendell Berry I was reading a book on culture and agriculture, and the above [...]

Well, I originally started this post with some poetic jabber about how October had dashed away in her colorful splendor, and November slid quietly in again, dressed in her usual drab brownish-gray… But now it’s almost a month later and we’re not going to talk about December’s clothes, so here goes another life update, brought [...]

“She’ll be grown before you know it.” I don’t know how many times I heard it after the birth of our firstborn, but these (almost) six years later, the truth is beginning to hit me. I should have seen it written on the wall. But the writing on my walls has always been in crayon, [...]

She looked so tiny when we brought her home ❤️ I wasn’t sure how she was going to hold her own against 3 energetic siblings. I needn’t have worried. She is so loved by everyone here. Some are more gentle than others, but she’s not had any sibling inflicted injuries. Yet. She peacefully sleeps through [...]

In the spring we found out she was on the way. “Finally something good this year!” said her Papa, who had been feeling really bummed out with the ups and downs of raising turkeys, (mostly down,) and the ins and outs of life during a “pandemic”…(mostly in.) News of a little baby to love was [...]

And just like that, summer is gone. Gone by in a blur, leaving us wondering where it went. We didn’t get all the things done that we hoped, and we didn’t go swimming even once. It was a short summer in some ways, but in other ways a long one. A summer of changes happening [...]

(No, I don’t have it figured out.) I think I’m a slow learner. Something I have realized about myself is that I don’t retain the things I read or hear, on the first exposure. I often have to ask a person’s name repeatedly, before I can process it and connect the name and face. And [...]

One of the loveliest plants I know Is a beautiful thriving rose From the blossoms on the thorny stems To the fragrance, that from them flows. But did you ever pass through the garden drear, In the bleakness of early spring And noticed those poor rose bushes Such depressingly ugly things! There isn’t a trace [...]

Gray is my favorite color. Except in February. And in November. There’s so much gray in those two months, I’m surprised there’s enough to spill out into any other months. But there is. January’s not all bright white snowy days. And March. March has a few grey days as well. Some days in March , [...]