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.
Racing With My Love
In our house dating was almost a thing of the past until this summer. Eddie and I have had several off the farm dates and hope to have more. We are both race fans and attend Shelor Motor Mile Speedway to watch our favorite racer, Michael Looney. If you haven’t been to a race before this is where you should start!
Motor Mile Speedway
The races start in early summer and end in September. Mike Looney was one of my Cub Scouts a few years ago and I thoroughly enjoy watching his success behind the wheel in the Late Model Stock Car heats. Michael placed 2nd in points at the end of the 2017 season.
Eddie and I only found time to go to two races at Motor Mile Speedway this past summer but enjoyed every minute and we followed Michael on to Martinsville in September 23rd to watch him compete against about 80 other competitors.
A gorgeous day for a race!Michael’s car was crushed near the end of the race after he had moved into 9th place and was moving to the front!! He did not get hurt but we were all crushed that he was knocked out of the race!!The stands were packed!The weather was cold and windy! Eddie and I both were shivering and waiting for the end of the last 20 laps so we could go to our hotel!
Then on October 29th we went back to Martinsville to the NASCAR race!! We had a great time and we owe this trip to some very good friends of our that won the tickets but don’t like racing!! Thank you Jo and Rusty!!! We spent the night at The Dutch Inn where we stayed on our first honeymoon back 45 years ago!!! It was a fabulous date!
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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8 thoughts on “Racing With My Love”
we’ve been race fans since my older brother took my twin and i to a local stock car race for our 11th or 12th birthday. i’m 67 now, so i’ve forgotten which exact birthday it was, lol. then my parents got hooked and we went to various tracks in ohio and pa for quite a few years. all but one of those tracks are gone now, but my twin eventually built and raced a sprint car (outlaw) for a few years at a couple of the tracks that survive. now my twin just goes to local races and we both watch nascar, ’cause we were always dale sr. fans (one of my cats is named the punkin-ator after him) and fans of the blaneys, as they are originally from ohio. now we have ryan blaney to cheer for in nascar. my older brother and his son, who live in florida, still hit some of the southern tracks a few times a year. –suz in NE ohio
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we’ve been race fans since my older brother took my twin and i to a local stock car race for our 11th or 12th birthday. i’m 67 now, so i’ve forgotten which exact birthday it was, lol. then my parents got hooked and we went to various tracks in ohio and pa for quite a few years. all but one of those tracks are gone now, but my twin eventually built and raced a sprint car (outlaw) for a few years at a couple of the tracks that survive. now my twin just goes to local races and we both watch nascar, ’cause we were always dale sr. fans (one of my cats is named the punkin-ator after him) and fans of the blaneys, as they are originally from ohio. now we have ryan blaney to cheer for in nascar. my older brother and his son, who live in florida, still hit some of the southern tracks a few times a year. –suz in NE ohio
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Suz, We are huge Dale Sr. fans and the racing is really different without him!
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She must be blinded by love!
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Love it!
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What packed stand!!! Are you blind! Look at all those empty seats!
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For a LMSC race the stands were packed and we were told by the officials it was the biggest crowd they’d had in years!
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You nut!!! You must be bored!
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Living large, girl!!
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