Time to pick the cherries

It's cherry pickin' time in KY. We weren't able to immediately recognize the trees on our property last year and we were so shocked to see the little red cherries growing. We were just fascinated by watching them grow and change to a deeper color. Being rookies we didn't realize that the birds were watching them as well. We picked a few bucket fulls and called another family to come over and pick...

The Early Bird Gets the Worm

After living out here in the country for over a year now, you would think that I would have learned by now that people wake up earlier out here.  They don't just wake up – they get dressed and get to work.  They will even come by someone else's house that early.    Unfortunately I am NOT an early riser.  Even if I do wake up early, I don't usually get dressed first...

The Stray Horse – part 3

The Reward –   Almost exactly a week after this stray horse came running up to our fence, we saw a Lost Horse ad in our local newspaper.  The description fit Bob.  My husband called and questioned the people very carefully before acknowledging that this indeed was their horse.  The family was sooo appreciative.    They lived more than 5 miles down the road from us and strongly...

The Stray Horse – part 2

The Search –   Our more experienced horse friends came over to help us with the fiasco/adventure.  Here’s homeschooling at its finest.  Two homeschool moms and 5 kids looking through our horse books to try and identify the breed, age of teeth, etc.  We decided that he was a gelding, looked to be healthy, maybe 5 years old or so and seemed to have been handled before.  Meanwhile my...

The Stray Horse

You know that saying. “You just never know what a day will bring”?  Well one day, it brought a stray horse to our farm.    My oldest son was doing some schoolwork when he looked out our front window.  He said, “Mom, there’s a horse just running down the road!”  I was pretty sure that he was wrong since we live pretty far off of the road – maybe it was just his eyes playing...