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.
New Flowerbed
This is my newest flowerbed. It’s located between the house and the gazebo. I took with Eddie’s help all of the large chimney rock that bordered my beds in the house yard and placed them in a large rectangle in the middle of the big yard. It’s a work in progress.The bed at the moment only has one plant in it and that’s a clematis that wasn’t getting enough sun around my porch. I placed a growing arbor in the middle for it to grow on. We stretched chicken wire around it to keep the free range chickens out of it.I plan to add more growing medium in it before major planting next spring. I need to find some more chimney rock to build it up a bit and it’ll need about 12 large bags of MiracleGro potting mix added to it.It’s rather dwarfed looking now but once its full of sun loving perennials it’ll be a show place, I hope! I think I want to go up one more layer of stone before adding to it. I’ll work on a plan for the plants this winter when updating my gardening journal.The gazebo is another garden I’m working on.I cleaned out all the stone and dug out all of the trumpet vine. This vine was too overwhelming and was growing out the roof.After removing all the stone I cleaned up the weeds and have planted moonflowers all around it. They slowly taking root and hopefully the end of July I”ll have huge white moonflowers all around it. It’s such a peaceful spot to just sit in the late afternoon and listen to the quiet.These were the moonflowers last summer. Can you imagine them all around the gazebo!!Up close view of the bloom that blooms all summer.
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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It is so far out there. One must go for a walk to enjoy it and cut the flowers. Is that the point? I remember that concept in landscape design (which I did not study). Showy plants were located at far corners of landscapes to attract people to them. Supposedly, it was a way of making better use of landscapes that are used for entertaining, by making crowds feel less crowded, and making every part of the landscape appealing.
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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It is so far out there. One must go for a walk to enjoy it and cut the flowers. Is that the point? I remember that concept in landscape design (which I did not study). Showy plants were located at far corners of landscapes to attract people to them. Supposedly, it was a way of making better use of landscapes that are used for entertaining, by making crowds feel less crowded, and making every part of the landscape appealing.
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