This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
Green thumb extended to winter
I love things that grow and gardening. Winter is a slow time for gardening but you couldn’t tell by looking at my back porch which is enclosed. I wonderful husband built me some shelving a few years back to accomodate my Thanksgiving and Christmas cactus assortment. The upper shelving holds about twenty beauties and the lower shelves hold our veterinary supplies for the cattle and other gardening supplies. I want to show you the beauties on the upper shelving that started blooming Halloween week and are still blooming today. Enjoy!!
New cactus from my daughter that will have yellow blooms.White bloom
A lot of them look alike but each one has a subtle difference. I’m looking for a orange and my daughter bought me three yellow cactus for Thanksgiving. They need little care and are only watered about once a month. Watering anymore than that will cause them to rot right before your eyes. The porch is very cool now but it hasn’t stopped these beauties from strutting their stuff. I used to have to carry all of them upstairs in the wintertime but right before the shelving was done, hubby pulled up the flooring, replaced plumbing, flooring, insulation, put in new windows and insulated the walls and put up paneling. It stays cool in the summer because of the maple trees surrounding the house and in the winter the sun (when it shines) keeps the plants happy and the room warm.
If you want a beautiful plant with little care, this is the way to go!!
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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The first blooms dried up before I got a picture and the rest of the buds set and dropped. They didn’t like the stress of moving from the store to my house and dropped the buds. I’ll get them repotted before I go back to work and then we’ll give them their new place to glow.
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
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Where’s the yellow ones???
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The first blooms dried up before I got a picture and the rest of the buds set and dropped. They didn’t like the stress of moving from the store to my house and dropped the buds. I’ll get them repotted before I go back to work and then we’ll give them their new place to glow.
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