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Dear Folks: January 26, 1997
Dear Folks, Well, never a dull moment! Some exciting moments we might wish had never happened.
Stephen and Kerry were out training the horses last Friday — it was a cold, slippery day gearing up for a messy sleetstorm. The horses are young, just learning to pull. For some time now Stephen and Kerry have been hitching them up and dragging around [...]
Dear Folks: December 22, 1996
Dear Folks, It’s the day after the solstice. The sun has turned the corner and is heading back our direction. (OK, OK, I know it’s really the earth that has turned the corner and is beginning to tip its northern hemisphere back toward the sun — but that’s not how it looks or feels, is it?) We won’t notice any difference [...]
Dear Folks: November 23, 1996
Dear Folks, Well, things have quieted down. They always do in November, when the world starts to freeze, we give up on the garden, we move the animals close to the house, we start lighting up woodstoves. Because of the short days, we can’t do morning chores till seven, and evening chores happen before five. That makes long, quiet nights, time [...]
Dear Folks: October 27, 1996
Hi Dear Folks, Whew! What a month! You know, normally things around here are sort of leisurely and orderly, quiet, routine, almost boring. But this month everything has been in flux. No time for boredom. All up in a heaval. I have been constantly excited, delighted, shocked, saddened, working flat out, exhausted, having a totally great time, or pushing to meet [...]
Dear Folks: September 29,1996
Good morning, Dear Folks! Sorry for the bounciness in the fonts — I’m a morning person, and this is a lovely one, so I feel bouncy. The sun is cutting through a bank of black clouds. We had a gentle half-inch rain last night; to help refill the pond and brook from the August drought. The storm came from the south [...]
