Bee~ Journal of then...

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Thanks! I wish I had had my camera also. I wanted to hold one so bad!!! Next year....... it will be my turn to have baby lambs to hold!

The rams were also very sweet and did not smell bad like a goat does. Very regal looking(the St. Croix have long manes!)...tall sheep!

How wonderful!!! This is definitely the place to buy lambs!!!

Why couldn't you hold one? (Every good salesman knows that if you can put it into the prospects hands to hold, it is as good as sold!)

I love holding my kid, it is the best part, and lasts for such a short time! At four days old, I'm already thinking....will this behavior be cute at 150 lbs (or however big bucks get!) But he still will get held for at LEAST a couple weeks, smoochie-boy!

Go hold some lambs! Who can't use some lamb therapy?

 

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Well, free, I stopped by the farm on my way to a patient's home...I didn't want to have farm mess of any kind on my clothing when I arrived!

 

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Oh, p'shaw! I call it aromatherapy!!!

 

[keljonma]

Bee, have you ever read Pleasant Valley or Malabar Farm by Louis Bromfield?

These are two books that I think you would enjoy. Though I don't own these, I do borrow them from our local library.

In 1938, Bromfield left France to come back to Ohio to farm. He got a lot of flack for his ideas about farming naturally when agri-business was into chemicals and mined the farmland for all they could take from it. "It can't be done," was a cry Bromfield heard with regard to his ideas for feeding programs, soil restoration, new types of tillage, and preventing cannibalism in chickens, to name a few.

I am now re-reading Pleasant Valley. Parts of this book, which was written in 1943, could have been written within the past year. He would fit right in with our crowd on ss.

His farm, Malabar Farm, is now an Ohio state park
http://www.malabarfarm.org/

 

[Beekissed]

Thank you, Kel! I will definitely be looking for those at my library! I love those types of books, as you know, and I've run out of reading material at my local libraries that is obviously SS.

 

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Well, yesterday my youngest boy came home a soldier....well, at least he signed up to become one! He was very proud and, maybe its my imagination, but he seems to walk with more purpose and is showing some more confidence in himself. He ships to basic training in June.

For years he didn't plan to go to college, said he knows he would never stick with it and see it through....lately he is talking about going into criminal justice! I'm pleased that he is even making plans.....

I'm so proud....

Sorry, didn't mean to spill over here, but I'm having all these mixed feelings...pride, sadness, a feeling of losing something precious as I watch a childhood fall away....my last chick. I just don't know what to feel today....so I had a slice of chocolate pie from the local corner restuarant! Maybe that will make it all better.....well....maybe another piece?

 

[TTs Chicks]

Chocolate fixes everything I guess it would be normal to feel the whole range of emotions - I have a few years, my oldest is 14 and it's sad enough some days watching him become a young man.

Just remember that you raised him to be the best young man he can be and know that God will be with both of you.

 

[lorihadams]

Mine turns 4 tomorrow and I am already dreading him leaving home.....

 

[keljonma]

One of my sisters just went through the same thing, Bee. Her second child was in ROTC during high school and went straight into the Marine Corps after graduation last spring.

Her oldest stayed near home and went to culinary arts school. He has his own place, but still stops by to visit occasionally. So this is her first child to be so far from home.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Well, yesterday my youngest boy came home a soldier....well, at least he signed up to become one! He was very proud and, maybe its my imagination, but he seems to walk with more purpose and is showing some more confidence in himself. He ships to basic training in June.

For years he didn't plan to go to college, said he knows he would never stick with it and see it through....lately he is talking about going into criminal justice! I'm pleased that he is even making plans.....

I'm so proud....

Sorry, didn't mean to spill over here, but I'm having all these mixed feelings...pride, sadness, a feeling of losing something precious as I watch a childhood fall away....my last chick. I just don't know what to feel today....so I had a slice of chocolate pie from the local corner restuarant! Maybe that will make it all better.....well....maybe another piece?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate pie!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I do believe 2 pieces are in order!

Uh, now I want chocolate pie!!