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Tonight I just want to make a journal entry, rather than a blog post on one of the blogs.  I have started writing Dispatches From the Farm as letters to and old friend, which has helped in getting a post … Continue reading →

I am still so damned unhappy with mom dying when she did.  Sure, I am ready to do life without her.  She did a good job, and raised me right. What I am not ready for is days without being … Continue reading →

To the ethereal memories of the one I have called Mom.  Happy Mother’s Day.  This is the first one without you, and you have been gone less than one month.  If I could write you a card, and you could … Continue reading →

There is a series of photos in my tablet that is difficult to scroll past.  They are the ones sent to me at the time of her death last month, and the ones taken at her burial.  I go looking … Continue reading →

It was sunny and beautiful in the valley on mom’s last day.  The temperatures were short sleeve, late spring-like.  Then it rained the day she died.  Apropos.  I hope nobody thought it was because they washed their car.  It was … Continue reading →

This has been a pretty tough week.  Mom went into hospital on Saturday morning with a massive hemmorage on her brain, which resulted in so much dammage that despite surgery, she could not be saved.  Early Sunday morning she was … Continue reading →

Today’s fun started out at a Restore store in Logan, Utah, shopping for cupboards to use to build a kitchen island and a baking station.  We got a sort of random bunch of cabinetry that had been torn from some … Continue reading →

I like to write.  In fact, I actually love it.  I love to sit at the keyboard and put down thoughts as they come to me.  It is a way of recording whatever is on my mind in the voice … Continue reading →

In between all the highs and lows, the running around and standing still, the bright and the dark moments, I get to plan out the summer work here on the farm.  I honestly don’t know what goes on in the … Continue reading →