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.
Tea Time
I have been a fan of iced tea for as long as I can remember and drink it all year long. Not until a couple years ago did I become a hot tea drinker. My son introduced me to hot green teas a while back and I like it almost as much but only in the winter months. Last summer I found an ad in one of my monthly magazines for Fusion Teas and what really drew my eyes to it was the metabolism boosts some of them gave. I sent off for a couple samples and now I’m hooked.
Pineaple Paradise is my favorite.
The website is http://www.FusionTeas.com and I order from them about every two months. The selection is huge and you can buy sample packets, 3 oz. packs, 6 oz. packs and 16 oz. packs. The Yerba teas are the ones that boost the metabolism but they also have black tea, white tea, green tea, oolong tea, hibiscus and several other types.
Some more of my favorites and my tea pot.
My first order included the Pineapple Paradise, Acai Berry Blend, Carrot Cake, and Cinnamon Roll. Others that I’ve bought and love are Papaya Ginger, Chocolate Fusion, Sensha Supreme, Raspberry Sunset, Pumpkin Spice and Passion Fruit. Pumpkin Spice is to die for!!!
They carry a wonderful assortment of teaware and gift boxes. I hope you go out and try some and enjoy it as much as I do.
My little teapot!!It has an easy to clean seive in the end to catch the tea leaves.
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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