Green Acres Blog Posts

  • The Wind

    The wind is gusting 33 mph directly from the north as I type. It is currently 64 degrees with a “feels like” temperature of 52 degrees. The perfect day for me here on the farm. After living here for over ten years, I have determined that my optimal outdoor temperature is somewhere between 50 degrees

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  • A Steep Learning Curve

    Not long ago, I posted that we celebrated our ten year farmiversary! It’s hard to believe we have lived here for ten years already, but there are times when it feels like a LONNNNG ten years!!! **For my newest readers and friends, I am going to share some of our background story in the next

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  • Farm Malady

    Pitch Fork Elbow. It’s a thing. You’ve heard of tennis elbow, right?! Well, when you are sixty-years-old and live on a farm, you may come down with pitch fork elbow. How, you may ask? Well, it’s simple. You forget that you aren’t forty anymore and you just dive in to moving about 5 or 6

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  • Ten Years on Green Acres!!

    TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, at 5:58 PM on December 21, 2015, we pulled through the gate at Green Acres with a U Haul, our children, our dogs, our cats, and a dream. Darkness had descended on the entire farm, but the excitement in our hearts couldn’t dim the joy we were all feeling as we

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  • 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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