Showing posts with label March 20. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March 20. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Home Base

Daisy, one of the calves born on our farm, sunning herself.
Our ducks on a daily stroll
a view from the barnyard

Our family lives in the thumb of Michigan in the heart of celery and carrot country outside a farming community. We have lived in the area for 17 years and in our cosy farmhouse for 15.
We have 4 horses, all raised pretty much from babies at our place, a mini pony, an ewe to keep the pony company, chickens, ducks, fruit trees and a big garden. We have a mini farm or gentleman's farm.
Matt works for GM as a modelmaker and I am a homemaker. However, I stay very busy. Between the farm, tutoring and caring for the girls overseas, managing our oldest daughter's dance program which includes making costumes, and caring for my family here, I don't sit around much.
The farm is really my baby, but everyone loves (and hates) different aspects of it. But at the end of the day, we all get a lot of happiness and satisfaction from being out with the critters, working in the yard or barn and picking the fruit, veggies from the garden or collecting eggs.