by Kara | Apr 7, 2022 | Country Living, Farm Life, Garden, Lambs, Reflections, Seasons on the Farm, Spring, Turkeys, Uncategorized
“Now say to yourself five times, and believe it… “”This is March. The main thing to do in March is to don’t. I don’t dare do much in my garden.. because I know this old fellow March; he fools me every time.” ~ Alfred Carl...
by Kara | Feb 4, 2022 | Chickens, Farm Life, Reflections, Seasons, Winter
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ I discovered the above Thoreau quote shortly after we moved to our farm eight years ago, and I have had it...
by Kara | Jan 31, 2022 | Farm Life, Reflections
Tap, tap… is this thing on??? It has been 14 months since I’ve written here. Every November I receive a bill for the domain name and web hosting for this website, and I have to make a decision…. to renew or not to renew. It is a respectable chunk of...
by Kara | May 19, 2020 | Reflections
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt This morning I woke up to rain drumming the roof, a dreary Monday, the 70-somethingth day of quarantine, ahead of me a full day helping five kids do school at home and doing...
by Kara | Jul 31, 2019 | Country Living, Cows, Grief, Reflections
“I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.” ~Anne of Green Gables I have blogged only twice in the past two years, and life has changed a lot during the passing of that time. I’ve discovered...
by Kara Williams | Nov 21, 2018 | Grief, Reflections
It’s been 364 days since I last wrote and I’ve never had so much inside me, yet so little power to articulate. The past year’s events mean life will never be the same. And yet in so many ways, life is the same. The week after my mom died I reached out to a friend who...
