Thursday Dose of Cute: Walking on Water

Tuesday Dose of Cute: New Photos from an Old Year, Part 1

I carry my camera with me everywhere around the farm and snap thousands of photos each year, most of which never make it up on these pages. This is a random assortment of personal favorites still sitting in my 2010 monthly 'to post' files, shown in the order they were taken throughout the year. I've separated this series into three parts because I had trouble narrowing down the list any further. Part three will be devoted to that cute overload known as spring lambing season.

Thank you all so much for your amazing kindness and support during the past year. Farewell 2010!

Saturday Dose of Cute: It's a Brand New Year

Full speed ahead!

© FarmgirlFare.com, the airborne foodie farm blog where that is indeed a new beagle puppy (!!!) you see flying through the hayfield (and who is now sacked out about five feet from my desk, even though he technically lives outside). I'll formally introduce you in a day or two, but I couldn't resist posting this picture of him launching himself—as only a puppy can do—into the new year.

Hopefully this will be the one where we finally move into the new building you can see in the background that we've been working on for nearly eight years. But if The Shack falls down around us before we make the move (you think I'm kidding), there's always the new (to us) little 'guest cottage' parked right next door to our future home. It's good to have a backup plan—and a puppy. Happy New Year!

Tuesday Dose of Cute: Mole Hunting

Sunday Dose of Cute: No Matter What the Weather. . .

You still can't fence in a farm cat.

© FarmgirlFare.com, the may get down to zero degrees tonight foodie farm blog where I've been out sick for the past week (finally on the mend—yay), so my hunky farmguy Joe has been doing all the farm chores. And apparently he needs some supervision, because today Sarah Kit Kat Kate decided to accompany him into one of the chicken coops while he fed, watered, and checked for eggs in the snazzy new nesting boxes the girls got last week for Christmas and have so far been afraid to lay in (until today!). Kit Kat reportedly had a great time leaping from perch to perch, and the chickens took this furry surprise visit very well.

Friday Dose of Cute: Tracking Down Some Christmas Spirit



Merry, Merry



Wishing you a joyful, relaxing, and laughter filled holiday!

Want to visit farm Christmases past?

12/24/05: It's Over 100 Years Old but Should Work Just Fine

12/24/05: Christmas Eve Greetings from the Farm

12/25/05: Merry Christmas to You

12/24/06: There are So Many Ways to Show Someone You Love Them

12/25/06: Wishing You Life's Simply Joy's This Christmas

12/25/07: Today's Holiday Performance Schedule

12/20/08: An Early Christmas Gift

2/16/09: Looking for Santa?

12/25/09: Holiday Surprise in the Greenhouse

12/25/09: Christmas Dose of Cute—It's White!

12/8/10: Patiently Waiting for Santa

© FarmgirlFare.com, the nose to the ground foodie farm blog where our big white dogs are on the job, even when it's Christmas.

Tuesday Dose of Cute: It's the First Day of Winter. . .

Fiona on March 6th

Saturday Dose of Cute: Hard at Work

Holding Down that Tarp

Our Kit Kat Kate is always busy:

5/1/08: Meet Sarah Kate

5/11/08: There's A New Supervisor in Town

5/26/08: Purr Where You're Planted

6/4/08: Look What the Kit Kat Dragged In

8/24/08: You Can't Fence in a Farm Cat

2/16/10: Perfectly Posed

3/16/10: Disappearing Cat Trick

3/26/10: Feline Philosophy

6/13/10: The Dangers of a Laundry Line

7/24/10: Kit Katting Around (and My Getting Around)

12/3/10: Moving In

© FarmgirlFare.com, the feeling lucky foodie farm blog where a farm cat's work is never done—and that's just the way they like it.

Thursday Dose of Cute: Chicken Crossing

© FarmgirlFare.com, the crawling with critters foodie farm blog where I've decided that what this place needs is more signage. We still have this one (which I love), there's a little sign in the barn that says SHEEP COUNTRY, and last year I couldn't resist a round metal sign that says MANURE MOVERS OF AMERICA (I can't even imagine life without my marvelous sheep manure), but now I'm thinking CHICKEN CROSSING, SHEEP CROSSING, TREAT ROOM, BIG DOGS ON DUTY, STOCK DOG AT THE READY, WELCOME TO DONKEYLAND, and of course at the entrance to the barn during lambing season, WARNING: SERIOUS CUTE OVERLOAD INSIDE. Is 20 degrees too cold to cut up a few pieces of wood and get out the weatherproof sign paint?

Wednesday Dose of Cute: Nibbling on Cedar Trees

It's a Holiday Tradition!

© FarmgirlFare.com, the tippytoed foodie farm blog where some people decorate trees for Christmas and others prefer to eat them. (Joe refers to all the animals as people—but don't tell him I told you.)

Monday Dose of Cute: Speeding Up and Snowing Down

We had our first snow of the season!

Saturday Dose of Frustration and Cute: Slowing Way Down (and Not by Choice)

Daphne Defending Her the Treat Barrow from Little Gnat

Out here in the middle of rural nowhere, high speed Internet service isn't an option. Instead we rely on satellite, which runs a lot slower and costs a whole lot more. For a full time blogger, this can be pretty annoying, but I make do with what I've got and try not to complain. Until now.

Wednesday Dose of Cute: Patiently Waiting for Santa

Smudge, who loves leaves, takes a laid back approach to the holidays. (Mr. Midnight, on the other hand, is a little more impatient.)

© FarmgirlFare.com, the no fear of heights foodie farm blog (well, except for me, Miss Terra Firma) where that ladder lives against The Shack so my hunky farmguy Joe can climb up on the roof to sweep the leaves off (which helps keep the rain in the kitchen down to a minimum)—and so Smudgie can get up there more easily.

Monday Dose of Cute: Behind Bear's Back

Sunday Dose of Cute: When All Else Fails. . .

Head on out to Donkeyland

And if that doesn't do it, bake yourself a quick chocolate cake, because it's definitely a chocolate emergency.

© FarmgirlFare.com, the wide eyed foodie farm blog where petting donkeys beats working on html blog code anytime—at least if you're as technically uninclined as some of us around here. Thank goodness for the loving distractions of those longears.

Friday Dose of Cute: Moving In

1:19pm

More photos below. . .

Tuesday Dose of Cute: Trying to Make Friends

Saturday Dose of Cute: Sun Spots

Cats Are So Good at Finding Them

Want to see more of Smudgie?

8/20/05: Smudge Up Close and Personal

10/22/05: Smudgie Up High

3/25/06: Smudge on the Old Well House Roof

10/20/10: Anybody Up for Raking Leaves?

© FarmgirlFare.com, the rock solid foodie farm blog where the foundation of the older half of The Shack—which dates from the 1800s and includes this rotting porch off the bedroom—is made from stone, as in straight sided rocks simply stacked right there on the ground, as you can see in the bottom left of this photo. Plentiful and free, and no worries about termites. They do look pretty cool (you know how much I love rocks), if a little unprofessional.

Friday Dose of Cute: Share and Share Alike, Version Two

Gnat and Esmeralda (click here to see version one)

© FarmgirlFare.com, the nippy little foodie farm blog where Thanksgiving Day's pleasant rain turned into ice pellets by afternoon and 15 degrees this morning. After reading the weather forecast yesterday, I went over to the new house and came back with my arms full of clothes. Joe took one look at me and started laughing. He knew exactly where I'd been—into the 18 gallon storage tub (we have no closets in The Shack) labeled POLARFLEECE. I love that stuff. Meanwhile, the donkeys just deal with the drop in temperature by getting fluffier and fluffier (this photo was taken back on 10/15).

Thursday Dose of Cute: Happy Thanksgiving!

Daisy and Marta

Thankful. . .

For these two amazing guard dog girls.

For a wonderful rainy day.

For the cozy warmth of wood heat.

For plenty of bowls and buckets to stick under the ceiling leaks.

For lots of progress made on the new house during the past week (which doesn't leak!)

For so many wonderful blog readers—many of whom are now friends.

For homegrown and homemade food so good that every meal is a celebration.

To share the farm with dozens of loving, adorable, and always entertaining animals.

To be surrounded by so much natural beauty.

To see and hear the migrating geese overhead (and yesterday, thousands of songbirds, too).

To live in a state of constant, total amazement.

To call these acres home—and to be with someone who loves farm life as much as I do.

What are you thankful for today?

Thanksgivings past:

11/24/05: Happy Thanksgiving to You

11/24/05: Year Round Thankfulness

11/28/05: So You All Ate Turkey on Thanksgiving, Right?

11/23/06: Thankful to Call this Place Home

11/22/07: Enjoying a Feast

11/27/08: Gobble Gobble

11/26/09: So Much to Be Thankful For—yeah, but. . .

© FarmgirlFare.com, the polarfleeced (at last!) foodie farm blog where the sound of rain falling on an old tin roof and the barking of the big dogs is music to our ears—and everybody knows that the best thing you can do after working all night or feasting all day is curl up with someone you love and take a nice long nap. Happy Thanksgiving!