Milkweed & Teasel

Shooting season is over. It was a bittersweet ending. I put on Mike's slippers one last time to greet the guns in the morning and outlin...

Thank you to everyone for your kind messages after my last post. The farm is still here. I am still here. I have good days and bad days. I...

It's taken two glasses of wine to get this far. I haven't posted for awhile because Mike was diagnosed with cancer in August and w...

Our neighbour is a cattle farmer, but he's in hospital with back spasms. For sure an occupational hazard in farming, made worse by the a...

In August it was our estate's turn to host the County Fair. It's a lot of work for the staff - estate owners want everything to look...

Summer has finally arrived and brought not just warm, dry days but many of them in a row. It makes it easier to plan big jobs like getting p...

It's still raining so I've decided to have an office day indoors. Well, mostly indoors; I will have to spend a few hours outside che...