Holes In My Jeans

I used to spend hours out in the field with the goats, cows, dogs and pigs. I don't know how I let that go by the wayside.  Tonight I w...

It's been almost a year since I've blogged. I felt like the farm happenings haven't been interesting enough to share with anyon...

This year's dress form Christmas tree took a different direction than the last few years.  Usually I use greens to dress her up, but ...

Raisa had another bull calf (turns out it was a little girl) on Wednesday, August 15th, 2 days before her due date.  Usually she has her ba...

The old gate I built out of wood many years ago rotted so it was time for a new one, this time out of steel, copper and aluminum.  It'...

I had a nice surprise waiting for me this morning.  Pessa gave birth to a sturdy, beautiful little girl.  I hadn't expected babies this...

I thought I was going to wait till this was done to post a picture of it, but I'm beginning to think I'll never get it quite right...

Another Halloween done, and it was a good one.  For the past 3 or 4 years we've been invited to a Halloween party to help give out cand...

I've been dressing the animals for Halloween for the past 4 or 5 years.  It gets more and more challenging coming up with costume ideas...

I've been on a portrait painting kick lately.  I've mentioned before how I've been trying to figure out what my painting style ...

This was one of my more successful offal dinners.  We try to use what we can from every animal we butcher but some parts just aren't...

James and I spent 3 days in Boone, NC this week so I could take a realistic impressionism workshop a friend had told me about.  This was my...