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Dad's Lighter Revisited

11/27/2016

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I find it interesting how the smallest thing, can trigger long buried memories. If you do not know about this lighter, please stop and read "Dad's Lighter" than the rest of this will make more sense to you.

A few days ago, I had to refill my Zippo lighter. As always my mind started thinking about my Dad. But there was something else there, a long deep memory, one I had not thought of in years.

On the evening of September 18th, 2010, I called my Dad, as was my custom to tell him about the goings on, with the farm. During that conversation. He expressed how very proud he was of Michelle and I for what we had accomplished on the farm.  

As I filled the lighter a few days ago I wondered if he would still proud of us. As I thought this, the tears came rolling down my cheeks. The flood gate opened and all those wonderful memories came back once again. But they were bittersweet tempered with the knowledge that he has been gone so many years.

So Dad, have we done well and are you still proud...

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Air Traffic Control to Alice

11/13/2016

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If you have read the blog much you know about our lovable duck, Alice.

She is her own duck and does things her own way.  She used to hop on top of the coops before to launch her flights. (Search "Good Day for a Flight" for the back story).

Well she is back at it with a twist, she now hops up there at dusk. This is fine and well, IF we have already fed them. She will sit up there until first light and then hop/fly down. But there is one small problem, when we get out late to feed them. She is already on the roof and in the dark she will not hop down. So I help her out, with a bright light to illuminate the way so she can get down and have her evening meal.

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Goat Calisthenics

11/6/2016

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Morning on the farm is a very special time. The air is cool, traffic is light and it is very quite. Everything is just waking up for the day. The goats slept in today, they were just rolling out the barn as we came out. As part of their custom, the morning stretch and yawns. This is then followed by morning scratches. You need to go to the petting rocks, sit down and pet and scratch them until they deem you are done. Just life on the farm!


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