Green Acres Blog Posts

  • Joy in the Snow

    “If you choose not to have joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” ~Walt Humphries Friends. This is my new favorite quote. It encapsulates so many imporant lessons for all of us. We can substitute many, many other words, phrases, and ideas in

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  • Life Lessons on the Farm

    Farming is a dichotomy. There are days of joy and days of frustration. There are moments of intense beauty and moments of intense difficulty. There are days of exhaustion and days of exhilaration. The animals bring joy and the animals bring sadness. The flowers grow and the flowers die. “The grass withers and the flowers

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  • Sunflowers and Weeds

    Summer is both stunningly beautiful AND miserably hot here on Green Acres. In life, we have to accept the bad along with the good that comes our way. Push through the knee high weeds to capture the beauty of forgotten sunflowers. Push through an overgrown path to reach the ripened fruit. Look up high to

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  • Farm + City Connections

    My life is so humorous at times. It is such a dichotomy due to the fact I lived in Houston, Texas for 50 years and still have many, many connections with friends and family from the world of education and NASA, but now I live on a farm and raise pigs, cows, goats, and chickens

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  • Part 4: The Unfitted Farmhouse Kitchen Reveal +The Pantry

    Well, Friends, here it is!! The moment you have all been waiting for! (Actually, it’s the moment I have been waiting for! 😉 Our unfitted farmhouse kitchen is (almost!) complete!!! We have some bigger projects and some smaller projects that need tweaking, to be sure, but it is completed enough to share with you all.

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  • Part 3: A Whimsical Kitchen + The #2 Pine Board Floor

    When we bought our farm, the one area I knew I wanted to change was the kitchen! It was completely covered in beige tile. It had beige tile floors, beige tile countertops, beige tile backsplash, and a beige tile built in table. Our master bedroom also had beige tile floors and a beige tile fireplace

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  • Part 2: The Antique Furniture + The Kitchen Sink

    I have a couple of thoughts that I need to share. This “unfitted kitchen” term is bothering me to no end. It isn’t quaint. It isn’t warm and cozy. It doesn’t truly capture the idea at all. ALL kitchen from the beginning of time until about 100 years ago were “unfitted” which means they were

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  • Farm Antics

    I’ve learned a thing or two about hungry cattle in the past six years. When you come out into the pasture with a bag of cattle cubes during a drought, even the most complacent cows become like the bulls you see on television during the Running of the Bulls in Spain! This morning, I felt

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  • Cute Cows Make Me Happy

    It was my very first time to go to the auction barn to purchase cattle. I sat and listened intently as the auctioneer started the cadence. I had done my homework and attended the auction for several weeks to learn how to enter into the fray. It took me a couple of visits to realize

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  • New Year, New Goals!

    Every year around this time for as long as I can remember, I begin writing down a very lengthy, detailed list of goals for the entire year. I make separate categories for the goals depending on what our family is doing during the upcoming year. This year, I have written four categories: personal, house, farm,

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