Katie's Journal

So far behind! I started writing this entry a year ago, and never finished it. So while it’s a little (ok, a lot) out of date now, I’m going to finish it anyway. I had just started getting Cisco going really well and riding him often when we met with an unfortunate accident. There was […]

I want to send out a good endorsement of the Swampy Hollow Ground Hog Cultivator. Ern had been wanting a new tiller – his is 20 years old. He saw an ad in a dairy magazine for the Ground Hog. He called about it, but at $1100 we just couldn’t justify it. And then last […]

When my friend Dawn was obsessively searching for a horse, she stumbled on an ad for a haflinger/percheron cross and told me I should buy him. I was not in the market for another horse and didn’t really pay much attention. The ad read: this is boone 11 year old percheron/haflinger cross he is 15.1 […]

This one is not for the squeamish. If you would rather not know how your nice juicy steak gets on your plate, quit reading now. A little traveling music for those leaving, courtesy of the 90s hit sitcom Friends. Oh the cow in the meadow goes moo. The cow in the meadow goes moo. Then […]

A few posts ago I wrote about Cisco’s accident. The winter before, I was able to take a horse and ride along when we fed while Sami rode in the tractor with Ern. It wasn’t much of a ride, but it got me in the saddle and I was happy to take what I could […]