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A Winter Break . . .
Jack the snoozy pooch takes a holiday break! The period from mid November to the beginning of January was our version of a long break, and it flew by: Lori had to do end of the year reports for her...
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Why No Posts Lately?
Posting has been quiet of late simply because we have been so busy. I geared up for school and no sooner had it started than goat kids started to be born right and left. But just to keep people current...
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The Fruits of Time
For my friends back East, I’m embarrassed to report that spring has been lovely and mild out here, and we have had beautiful days interspersed with just the right amount of rain since January. Despite...
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HOSPES, HIC BENE MANEBIS . . .
A fresco from a triclinium (Latin for “dining room”) from the villa of Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus, at Prima Porta. The fresco, with its fruit, its trees with vigorous foliage, and birds,...
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The Nasomah: Our Tragedy, Ourselves.
A lovely but austere memorial to the people who once inhabited the mouth of the Coquille River. So I was grading finals at the end of May when I got a phone call from Lori: our farm hand Ryan and...
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Here’s Lucy!
Biff! Bam! Pow! That was the sound of a recent one-two-three punch as our farm got hit by a series of what could only be, at it’s most gentle, described as a series of Cluster-Fornications. First...
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Summer to Fall
Light posting this summer because we were just so durned busy! And sorry if this comes off more as an illustrated diary than a creative blog post, but after selling countless eggs, putting up...
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Community
My good friend Bob Wagoner walks up his street in Huntingdon PA on a fine, brisk October day. The root meaning of the word community does not bode well. It comes from the Latin verb, communire,...
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From One Year to the Next
Our friend Susan Regan, a retired AP photographer turned goat farmer whose pictures you have seen repeatedly, whether you know it or not, has become a good friend and neighbor to us here at the farm...
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Well, I guess if I haven’t blogged since February that would constitute light blogging. What can I say – blame it on an annus horribilis that just got horribilior by several degrees. Also my teaching...
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