Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Restoring a historic farm. Raising Icelandic sheep, Guinea hogs & Orpington chickens. Trying not to go broke.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Magic Beans

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This is a story about a boy named Will and a sheep named Rio. (Oddly enough, it's also a story about EBay . Be patient--I am going som...
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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Why Do Sheep Have Green Ears?

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Every year it comes around again, my least favorite day on the farm. I'm sure it's the sheep's least favorite day too. Yesterda...
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Friday, August 3, 2007

Small miracles

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The worry about money is pretty much constant right now. We have several possibilities for income pending which could help us out quite a l...
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Thursday, August 2, 2007

This is a Test...

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I faced a huge test of willpower yesterday. A woman contacted me, interested in maybe buying one of my horses... and possibly also that hors...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Written in the Stars?

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At the risk of sounding flaky, I'm going to confess: I decided to start this blog (and my Keeping The Farm website ) because of a horos...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Unexpected Bounty

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The animals were without hay for 1 day. They didn't go hungry. I made sure of that. I turned the horses out into the big pasture, whi...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

No Hay, No Money... No Hope?

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This was the worst it has ever been. In our dimly lit, dusty hay storage building, Ken counted the few remaining bales again and asked me, ...
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Nancy Chase
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
Shepherd, Farmer, Artist, Writer.
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