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“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
– Sigmund Freud
moo
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Our little friends Rachel and Abbey got a new pet.
He also happens to be their first cow.
Meet J.W.
just ‘wild’ for blackberries
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Hit the farmers market last weekend and made a run on the wild blackberry jam from Brees Farm.
We may just have to go back on Saturday and grab some more.
So that every houseguest this summer goes home with a jar.
word of the day
chert (chûrt)
noun: A hard, brittle sedimentary rock consisting of microcrystalline quartz. It is often reddish-brown to green but can also occur in a variety of other colors, especially white, pink, brown, or black. Chert often contains impurities such as calcium, iron-oxide, or the remains of silica-rich organisms. It usually occurs as nodules in limestone and dolomite and has curved fractures.
Origin: 1670–80; origin uncertain
Related forms: chert·y, adjective
Used in a sentence: “Well, the road to your upper pasture is washed out. We gotta go get you a [dump truck-sized] load of chert.”
#followfriday
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‘Providing peace and dignity’
Author Melanie Sue Bowles and her husband Jim take in horses that have been written off — abused, neglected, even abandoned. Every horse that has been lucky enough to come into their care at Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary in Lincolnton, Ga. gets a new lease on life, as well as a new family. Today, Proud Spirit, one of the country’s largest privately run horse sanctuaries, also provides safe harbor for dogs and even a few wayward pigs. In the introduction to her first book The Horses of Proud Spirit (also the subject of an Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary), Melanie recounts an important lesson imparted on her and her siblings from their parents: namely, that “it’s possible to attain higher levels of happiness, feelings of self-worth, and a genuine sense of accomplishment if we take the focus off ourselves — what we have, what we don’t have, what we wish we had.” If you’d like to learn more or help out, click right here.
“I did not go searching for the horses I have encountered along my journey and brought into our family…the reality is that they have all found me.”
– Melanie Sue Bowles
