Yep…been having that same craving Shery…wish I could be closer to you. We do it on foot, no horses (dang – always a dream of mine). Someday would love to meet you in person, or on the trail! We seem to have so much in common, but isn’t that the farmgirl way. And, the postcards and pictures and whatever all that beautiful stuff is on this blog absolutely has me yearning and wishing I could plaster my walls in all of it. Loved it so much. P.J. Robertson, Wild at Heart Farmgirl, Atascadero, California

Shery,
Although I am in Michigan, I think we share a brain. All I’ve been thinking about lately is our first camping trip of the season, as I look out at the snow. We will probably be staying close to home this year and there are plenty of beautiful spots here in my home state. I think I’ll go make a mix tape to take and play by the fire and you can bet "Four strong winds" will be on it.

I had a pet skunk named ‘Sweetie Pie’ when I was growing up and she was darling, much nicer than any other pet I’d had. I had just put a new picture profile on facebook of Pepe’s girlfriend (also Disney)as one of my monikers. She used to like to get under my Mother’s bed and push up on the springs on her back. If scared she would ‘display’ like she was going to spray. She loved catching bugs and followed us everywhere.

Oh Shery,
so true on so many levels…
One of my dearest gal-pals stayed over night with us the other nite & we chewed the fat about our many upcoming Glamping trips, trailers and dutch oven recipes….and how we are sooo ready to camp,,,hmmm, could it be from this latest round of snow & snow drifts that have us ‘itchin to get hitchin…? lol!
Funny how when camping, I can get up at 5:30am, put on a pot of java, and sit out by the rivers edge to watch mother nature come to life,,,yet at home I will grouss about wishing I could have an extra hours sleep…funny isn’t it.
Come on Spring & Wagons HO!
>^..^<

I can’t imagine letting a summer go by without horse-camping! I am also watching the snowdrifts here in northern MN and wondering when they’ll melt. So far my favorite is Teddy Roosevelt National Park, but this year I am going on to MT also. We have great camping and riding here, too, so why do I feel such a wanderlust?

Hey Shery,
We do have some awesome outdoor opportunities around us! We are so lucky to be able to fall off our porches and into some of the most beautiful places in the country! I really enjoyed the pictures on this post, I cant wait to climb into my kayak in my bikini this summer!!!!!!

I am listening to Neil Young as I type this and enjoying it so much too. We love to camp in our family. We had a 2nd hand old pop-up camper when our children were growing up and a tent for the extra kids we would pack along with us. But that old camper finally bit the dust and it was replaced with a newer tent. That tent finally tore up with a bad wind that came through a couple of summers ago when we sat it up in the back of our 10 acres where we have our fire pit for the littlest of grand children to lay down until we were done for the evening. Hubs and I have not replaced that tent because I just am not into sleeping on the ground even with a blow up mattress under me anymore. And I crave one of the old vintage campers and even have hubs keeping an eye out for one also. Great post!

This is my first day as an official farmgirl…..I am Kate from Fort Collins, Co……long time ago from Saratoga,WY and even longer ago So. California.
We are searching all over our area for a house with acreage to build our dream; growing our own food and being together outdoors. No more homeowners’ association telling me I can’t have chickens or hang my sheets out to dry in the fresh air.
Yipppee.
Kate

This is the first time I’ve been on your site. Keep up the good work!
I have been dreaming of camping out with the horses these days. My sisters and I are already planning the first trip out. We don’t have to go any farther then we can ride from the house for great camping. We want to haul out this year though. I can’t wait!!

Shery, this is the 6th time I have come back here to re-read your, "Ho Ho A Camping We Will Go"…I love it.
Also, I REALLY enjoyed your comments on "Planting Sugar" with Rebekah…Are you sure it was his NAME that appealed to you, or was it because he loved horses?…just thinking (grin).

Oh Shery! You’ve done it again! Everything looks and sounds so pretty and yummy! I truly believe color has the power to heal our emotions. Why else would the CREATOR have made so many beautiful and awe inspiring colors? I agree… home making is a choice and for some a real calling, but I’m grateful to have the choice to be a homemaker and or a working mom outside the home too. Your term " Pink Collar" is adorable and fitting for so many working women today. And Mary Jane is the perfect example…You can love pink and still be all ( well, almost all ) business too!
Oh I just love your blogs!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Beach Blessings,
Deb

Shery,
I have to agree with Janice – you are my favorite! You have an artistic eye and nature – one can certainly tell. It’s always a joy to see your fun times with your farmgirl sisters. And sharing some of your favorite music is an added benefit. I am still playing "In The Bleak Midwinter" from Utube! Thanks a bunch for all your wonderful words and pics.

I would just love to be at your meetings and hang out. You make us just drool over the fun you have. Your blog is the greatest. We have 60" of snow here and it has been below zero. I’ve got lots of those "klondike" clothes here. Pink is my favorite color. I have lots of it to share. Happy Valentine’s Day girls…I’m with you in spirit. Bonnie E

Shery,
I always look forward to your blogs. They are so inspiring and like you, I too love antiques, flowers and all things home/handmade. Keep up the good work and have a wonderful Valentine’s Day. Ours all always special since it is also our anniversary (#3).
Thanks again-

Rusty

You make me wish I could be in your group. I love your blogs. Everything you and your friends from the food to the gifts to the crafts make me to want to try them all and I am going to try. Thank you so much for the invite to a little of the fun you and your group had. And please keep sharing.

I love that you shared your gathering with your fellow farm girls. Thank you! Florence

I wish that I could have been there. I love your blogs. have a happy valentines day.

Oh how I love your blog !! And you hit me between the eyes with all things pink…As I LOVE PINK !! Great pictures and info I’d never heard about pink !! Farmgirl Hugs…Kristy

Ooh, I just loved this post and your blog. I never thought of making cookies from cake mix before. I might have to try that.

Joanna

How did you form the heart shape cookies?

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Hi Susan, a heart cookie cutter :o)   shery

Oh so wonderful to know how special it is to have a home ~ and to know that IS where your heart is..and most likely the things you love most !!!!! I also have a horse love affair ~ 4 at my home with me, my baby being a Belgian Morgan who is 28~oh,talk about love??? Well then I’d also be talking about my husband of 34 yrs. who took a job in North Dakota[our home is in MN.] in November after an early lay-off in construction. Looks like the future may be uncertain, but for now, we are grateful for what we have : our home, our children and our animals !!! Thanks for sharing about your life !!! Marie

Lovely…the pictures are heartwarming…simple beauty…Spring is right around the corner and I can’t wait to see which flower sticks its’ head out first on my own High Plains home.

Oh Shery,
So true! Home truly is where and what you make of it.
We are so very Blessed.

oh & by-the-by,,,the 18th picture down (from the top)…I spotted a sweet lil blue & white vintage trailer….yours by chance?
Having a wee old trailer to glam-up and farmgirl cutsiefy is the Best!
Wagons HO & happy trails to you too!

Amen, Amen! I love the poem and the beautiful pictures.

I loved your poem about home. Home has always been very important to me, so I really identified with your words, even if I don’t get to live in the country which is my hearts desire. I’m not getting any younger, but I am still hoping and praying for my little peace of heaven. 🙂

Shery J!
This entire entry today has beauty and blessings galore!So many of your lines hit home with me, but the one for me was,
"The best home site isn’t necessarily where you came from. It is the place you commit your heart to".

We simply must do our best to make each house a home…and I agree…Farmgirls ARE HOMEGIRLS!
The longer I’m home(13 years now)the more blessed and grateful I feel for everything!
Thank you for you special way of sharing your world and blessings.
Beach Blessings to you!
Deb~

Lovely. I could relate to it all….But what are those wild flowers after the poem? I learn something new every time I read/look at your blog, but this wasn’t identified, and I feel today’s knowledge is incomplete.

MY HOME IS the place to be…Where ever I go, nothing and no one can keep me away for very long from my "nest of love!" HERE is the place my sister and I rescued abandoned little ones…HERE is a place where all kind of animals can rest in peace…HERE we all live together in the respect of life…We are vegetarians and we prefer our little ones sitting on us, singing their love to us, than in our plates…HERE is the place I want to be…Thank you for this sweet poem…In our modern world, too many people seem to have lost the true values of life and family…Brigitte

Thank you for making me take a break for awhile and really read your poem. Lovely way to drink a cup of tea. Thank you!

Oh, your pictures are beautiful! I am a home-girl to the core. I’m constantly realizing, "Oh, I haven’t been to town in 3 days", or "…a week!" 🙂 Home is very sweet. Thanks for posting such a sweet poem. What a talent to have! Blessings on your home~ Breanna

Very beautiful and inspirational writing. I have been thinking lately how many memories pass through our minds each day and we never stop and just think about them. All the details, the smells, sounds, feelings that accompany our memories. It has made me very happy to take the time and just contemplate the awesome times of my life.
I would encourage all my Farm girl sisters to do this. It will bring happiness untold to each of you!
Blessings to all of you!

Favorite things – I too like kittens and puppies and my horses even if I don’t ride like I use too, just sitting at my kitchen table or on the back porch swing watching them out in the pasture is a favorite thing. Also memories of my childhood with family at my grandma’s house, a smile comes to my face. And reading what you wrote made me smile and remember. Thank you for letting me share some of your favorite things and to make me think of mine.

Shery, Hey there farmgirl friend. Loved this post. My favorite things – time with my grandchildren, time to spend creating, Ladybug, playing cribbage with the hubs, my new love of chickens, gardening in the spring, the list is long. Your sister is a jewelry artist – the bracelet is lovely. We must be kindred spirits, I love these songs from The Sound of Music. I always cry through Edelweiss and I have stamped some of the words from My Favorite Things on an old printers drawer that I use for a shadow box. If I copied it correctly you can see it here on my blog. http://brtowsleyblogs.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-projects-one-new-other-old.html You may have to copy and past it to your browser. You have inspired me to make a list and I might actually blog about it. Have a wonderful weekend!

Dearest friend,
You probably know a lot of my favorite things. But, here are a few you might not know. The first and foremost is the love I share with my granddaughters. They are each so special and I see the love I feel for them reflected in their eyes each time I see them and I know how fortunate I am to have them within minutes. I love the sound of my children saying "Hi, Mom." when they call just to share some excitement of the day. I love the compassion of my daughter in being a hospice nurse and the woman she has become.
I love the scent of spring…the beauty of the new leaves opening up, the sound of a breeze in the pines and the water in a rocky creek. The beauty of color of fall and the starkness of the trees in a beautiful snow, a pine bough heavy with snow.
Something fairly new added to my list is the joy and companionship of my farmgirl friends. The sparkle in your eye when amused and Jennies huge laugh, Michele’s soft smile and kindness and Anita’s all-encompassing love of life and her ability to live the way she chooses. You have all enriched my life beyond anything I could have imagined. And I know you all would be there in a second if needed, as you all proved after last week’s surgery. I am blessed and thank you for inspiring me to think about these things!

Shery,

I am always so inspired by your words which obviously "pour forth from your very soul". Your blogs are definitely one of my favorite things! Thanks, as always, for sharing. As you say, you never know how shining your own Inner Light will touch someone else’s heart. Keep shining, Shery!!

In Loving Kindred Spirit,
Ruth

Dear Shery,
Thank you for sharing your favorite things and many blessings in such detail. Winter is the season for living slower, feeling more and counting blessings old and new… I count you and this blog space among my many favorite things! Here’s mine: My family is my number one blessing and it is with them that I get to experience so many of my favorite things. Home schooling, beach time, family games, sharing homemade meals, growing food, listening and playing music together, caring for our pets and sharing in our successes and failures too. I cherish the memories we are making day to day. Boiled down, I love to hear my daughter play her composition’s on the piano, I know I am witnessing pure creation when she writes and composes and I feel blessed that it is my ears that get to do the listening… the same is true when our son plays something on his guitar…I try to stay in tune with the creating that happens around and inside of me most of the time. It’s all so miraculous! Like you… I treasure old things and simple ideals, but I also love a chance to turn an old so and so into a new treasure for today’s use. Gardens in springtime and throughout the season are a constant source of inspiration to me! How does all that growing happen in such a short span of time? Horses, dogs, chickens, cats and birds are my very favorite animals. The sound of peepers in springtime, the call of the mourning dove, the smell of pine, sage, beach roses and low tide all bring cherished memories from days gone by and those ahead too. As I write here I realize I could go on and on so I’ll stop and enjoy these renewed blessings that are bubbling to the surface because of your lovely writing today!

Thank you again for your timely words and such beautiful photos too!

Farmgirl hugs!
Deb

Shery,
"…. peace can be lost more easily than we think. Under certain circumstances, the grasp we have on a steadfast "knowing" where we’re to go can loosen and our strength fades. People can lose their lives in an instant, but they don’t lose their way in a moment. It happens gradually, making it all the more important to keep your lamp light burning and watch where you’re going. Guard your heart, your spirit and your mind."

One of my new "Favorite Things" this past year is your blog:) Your quote above moved me this morning…it is so true as our life journey continues to remember this very truth. I am learning to guard my peace and in doing so I know I must guard my thoughts and my spoken words as well, not so much for what others may think of me but for what I think of myself.

Although our lives are very different and we live far away, I find a very definite "kindred spirit" within your words. I describe my decorating style "Campy Cottage"….when you said "camp cottage", my heart jumped, most do not get that description, it seems too large of a contrast for most. Guitars…love them, my son is very gifted in guitar and I am blessed by his gift. Red and White enamelware makes my heart skip a beat.

I am not one to leave comments very often on blogs, but felt I must today. Hope you find my words in the light they are intended….as gratitude.

Breathing in my favorite things today,
Raynita

Hi Shery.Thank you for reading my blog, glad that you enjoyed it, themofarmersdaughter.blogspot.com, have a great day,carol

Hey Farm Gal Pal! I love reading your blogs and all the comments because it’s like reliving our Farmgirls fun all over again! I just want to tell you my favorite things are very simple: family and friends! Without them to share things with, nothing else matters. One day a long time ago you asked me my favorite thing to collect and I said friends! It still is and I feel truly blessed to have all my Farmgirl sisters as such great friends! I love you all! Jennie

Happy New year Shery!

Oh how your pictures have made my heart sing! Winter is a different time indeed…but with the promise of spring to follow it is always worth the wait. I find winter to be a beautiful time too, although my old bones don’t quite like it as much as they use too.(haha) The sledding party looked wonderous-it brought me back to childhood days full of winter fun. Thank-you for sharing. Pam

Happy New Year! We are finally getting the snow that has been hitting all around us here in our woods. Hubs has been out plowing our long drive and shoveling a path to the hen house for me. About 1/2 of my hens are molting. A couple are looking really sad to me. My big black hen is almost featherless all around her neck. But she is spunky so I guess it is just taking longer for her to regrow her feathers. They have not been out much as of late. First we had some really fringed cold temps and now the snow is piling up. But they all seem to be making the best of bleak mid-winter days. I am holing up and crocheting and hope to get back to sewing soon. My sewing area is in our walkout basement but we do not heat it much. Loaned my little space heater to a daughter that needed it more badly than I to help keep grandchildren warmer at night. I just might have to have hubs move the machine upstairs for me. So enjoyed your beautiful pictures. Especially the big cow mug with the snow on her face. Reminds me of my Ladybug when she comes in out of the snow. Blessings!

Lovely photos, lovely post! Timmy is gorgeous.

Hi Shery
So beautiful to look at, and I certainly get the challenge/opportunity of caring for animals in that kind of cold! In California, where we are, a heavy frost is what we face.. not much compared to you and still slows us down, get’s pretty sloppy, and has us appreciate the other seasons more. Thank you for sharing all year, I so love your blog, what beautiful pictures you share and your honesty is so heart warming, even in the middle of a "bleak" winter.
Happy New Year to you and your family as well.
Love. Terces

I do so love your posts. I always want to make a cup of tea before I read them. You take beautiful pictures and you definitely have an eye for the beauty in winter. Thanks for the reminder that happiness is a choice. 🙂

Thank you, Shery, for your beautiful photos! I am the only farmer in the family who appreciates the beauty of winter. In fact, just today, my 11 year old daughter informed me that while the first snowfall of the winter is fun to play in, after that it just gets old. How sad! I now plan to get my camera out and start shooting pictures of WHY my family should be grateful for this beautiful season. Then they can try to convince me why summer is so great…….

Hi, Shery. I couldn’t agree with you more on your lovely descriptions of winter. I am looking out upon a scene of my tall hemlocks and 150 year old sugar maples with are draped in snow with an occasional snow shower when the wind slips through the trees. I have to talk myself into getting into my boots and other gear to bring more wood into my garage today but will then be rewarded with a toasty fire soon after. As always, your pictures and prose are delightful. I enjoy your blog very much. Stay warm!

Shery, I love your blog. I receive several but enjoy yours is the best of all. I wish I lived near you to share in all the fun things you do. Your friends are so fortunate.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Hi Shery,

What a fun time you and your ‘hens’ had and the food looks and sounded delicious. I’ve copied your recipe and will be trying that out…I can almost smell it looking at your picture! Merry Christmas to you and your family too.
Maura 🙂

I so look forward to your postings, love your piece of Heaven. I also live on a little farm in Eastern OK and love my animals, gardens and my own little piece of Heaven…Have a Blessed Christmas Season…..

Wish I could have been there! Shery, did you brush vegetable oil or butter over the pumpkin to make it shine?

Loved your hen party ideas, gifts & menu. I am going to check out those dishes at K-mart – I think Santa needs to bring them to me for Christmas! I would love the recipe for the coconutty cookies you have pictured. Also, do you sell your jewelry on line anywhere? I like your turquoise pieces & the bottle cap bracelet. Oh, if you don’t mind putting a picture of your "real hen house" on the blog I would love to see it. I have been searching for a good idea to put on my property for chicks I will be getting in the spring. Thank you for sharing you wonderful ideas.

Thank you for sharing your country "doings"!!! I love all the creativity. You always inspiring.
Merry Christmas.
Julie W.

As always, your "silver tongue and pen" shine like Christmas tree baubles! I smile as I read your wonderful words. Merry Christmas, Shery! Keep those stories coming.

Shery,
Thank you for letting us come to your Hen Party. Looks like you all had lots of fun and lots of yummy food! Can’t wait to try the stuffed pupmkins. I love your jewelery, beautiful!
As always, I so enjoyed reading your latest blog. I really look forward to each and every one.
Merry Christmas!!

Sheri, wonderful Christmas to you and all your hen-friends…feathered and non. You cheer us all up. thanks, cora jo

Love the articles and pictures, I love so much of the things you talk about I too collect things that others think are too far gone. First time for me to read your connections, won’t be the last. Going to enjoy reading all the older ones.Thanks for putting so many of my thoughts in words.

Are you ever on top of it!! A lovely, lovely post. My first thing is to bring out my holiday dinnerware set — the Lenox bird set — and it stays out until Valentine’s Day!
Thanks!

What a wonderful post! I can only imagine how wonderful Christmas is living on a ranch. We moved to our small farm a year and a half ago and I’m loving every minute of it and although we don’t have a lot of animals …it’s starting to feel more and more like a farm should. Thank you for sharing your tree search photo’s and your decorations…your trees are beautiful. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Maura 🙂

Oh Shery,
The first thing I do to start off the Season,,,, is Music,,,I pull out a "gazillion" CD’s of Christmas Music…I am forever buying new ones and yet they all have the same songs…but I am a pushover for Christmas music.

I luv your decorated faux fruit idea, and I see ‘plastic’ fruit at the Thrifts all the time,,,hmmm, I think I will have to pick some up, glitter, decorate & display,,,thanx for a great idea.

Last but not least, from our little ‘ranchette’ to yours,
Blessings to you & yours for a truly meaningful Christmas.
<><
grace

Thanks for sharing your joy and love for this most blessed Christmas season. Have a beautiful Christmas at your lovely home with your very blessed family and friends. I plan on doing the same here at my lodge:)

I just love reading about your life in WY! Merry Christmas!

This was great. I love seeing all the old ornaments and the decorations. Took me back to my childhood days. Now I share these with my grandchildren.Merry Christmas to all.
Thank you for sharing your holidays with us

You should know that in this busiest of seasons, your post was the one I HAD to read – its always the best. God Bless you and your’s this Christmas! Farmgirl hugs from Virginia!

Shery, Love this blog post. LOVE it as always. And I am crazy ga-ga over that white Christmas tree at Beth’s. I secretly lust for a white tree. Your flow blue plates are beautiful too!

Love that you used those junipers. I have been considering doing the tumble weed tree for a long time. Blew it this year, as the snow came before I could gather them. But next year!

Hi Shery, Just read your blog about your Christmas. Loved it. So many times we don’t stop and think about the reason for the season and its sad. I am making some homemade Christmas presents. I love it and my galpals love to sit around on a day we pick for lunch too. we will exchange our little gifts as well. Have a Very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year, Hugs, Farmsister #1020 Juanita

Love to hear I’m not the only one who views winter coming with a slight misgiving. Fall is my time. Winter is great when I have nowhere to go, a great quilt to work on and a cup of hot chocolate to warm me. Thanks for your wonderful blog! May we all remember the little things we take for granted and be thankful for everything in our lives.

Hey Shery
Hope you & your family had a Blessed Thanksgiving….
Ok, I have to laugh…if I did not know better, I would have thought we were neighbors…lol!
We have wild turkey all around us….they seem to travel in groups of almost a dozen…unfortunatley they have to run (why, I do ‘t know) across the road and usually with 1 fatality…Not the brightest foul…lol!
As for the deer, we have both White Tail & Mule….and it is mating season so they are a little more brazen when it comes to crossing over the roads…My daughter & I were heading into town at 5:30am and sure enough we could see a lot of tracks, and then suddenly one stood out in the middle of the road, to fearful to decide which way to run.
We just finished with our 1st Blizzard of the season…oh joy!…but all the more of a reason to go squirrel away in my sewing den…to get creative with needle & thread.
I too am So Over this cold white stuff but alas…here I am!
Hugz & enjoy a nice hot cup of cocoa & a big yummy spice cookie.
>^..^<

I think the horses just like to watch us break up frozen water. Why do they like to play with the tank water heater? It is always nice to just lay against my horse and feel the warmth of their body in the cold winter. I will miss that this year, but if all goes well I will have me a Morgan mare this spring. Next winter I will have the frozen buckets and ice on her whiskers and the warmth of her body. She is coming from a warm climate and I will not get her until next spring. I enjoy this site and all the memories that it brings to me from my childhood on my grandparent’s farm. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures.

What great article, Thanksgiving is for me a very special day. By reading the article on corn you brought memories for me as a young child. I remember grandpa growing the corn in South Mexico, where I was born. We left South Mexico when I was a young child (2) to migrate to this Great Nation. Returning every year when grandpa harvested the corn, I remember grandpa, grandma, great grandma, mom and my sisters all sitting around helping him grind in this round handmade wheel made from dried corn cobs. I can remember grandma with her long braid gather the corn to make homemade tortillas, on a large round COMAL (griddle) with firewood. They were spectacular and delicious not to mention her tamales. Those days are gone, but the memories live on…and for me close to my 60’s, I am proud to say that I’m so happy for those memories and guess what? I now have a long braid just like grandma. Thank you for this article it made my day! Maria

Who would have thought corn would have such an interesting story! Thanks Shery for the great read and images. I love Thanksgiving and I love corn–a wonderful match.

I wonder if the first Indians that planted corn would know what an impact they would make on the world.

Who knew there was so much to know about corn? When we drove through the heartland of our beautiful country a few years back in late summer I thought we would never see the end of corn fields and that was after two straight days of driving across Kansas through what seemed like endless acres of sunflowers in bloom. After that drive I "got it" about how much we rely on the farmers of the heartland and beyond. The uses and products that come from just those two crops alone are mind boggling…
When my hubby and I were first dating we shared a family meal where we served corn on the cob. It was sweet corn and from a local farm, but apparently my husband hadn’t had corn that tasted so good in a while because he took one bite and exclaimed, " I haven’t had corn that good in three years "! We all burst out laughing and to this day whenever we have sweet corn you can guess what we all say…That was 23 years ago!
I love using corn stalks in my fall decorating outside. This year the squirrels had a field day with them. I had stalks loaded with corn cobs and with in just a day or two of putting them out they had gone missing and all that was left were traces of corn on the ground!
We are big fans of blue corn chips in our house and that blue corn cake recipe sounds tasty with the blue berry sauce on top!
Thanks for a wonderfully complete lesson in corn and for the great recipes too.

As always, you have a way with words and images I so enjoy!

Deb (who had no idea she had so much to say about corn)!

Yes, you must see the "Corn Palace" in Mitchell, South Dakota. Every year the exterior is recreated with corn forming the different pictures honoring one central theme. We were able to see and photograph the building in all its colors celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition. WOW. The interior is the local area’s indoor arena.
33 years ago while living in Spain, there was no corn on the cob available. There was feed corn, but corn was not consumed by the regular population. 3 yrs of no corn on the cob, I can know enjoy it as a meal all on it own.

This made me remember just a few weeks ago, when our son (7 years old) suddenly realized that "HIS" corn plants (volunteers by the front door ) were READY TO EAT! He got to pick and shuck, and we did not even cook them, we just ate them raw and sweet as summer ever gets! Thanks for the reminder, I’ll treasure this one for a LONG time!

Oh my dear Shery,
Where do I begin? How about with a good long sigh for starters and a few tears of joy for good measure…Joy abounds in your words and photos! As always I wish I could jump right in! I can smell the sage, feel the roughness of the rust covered jagged rocks buried in the landscape, hear the rustling of the leaves on the familiar cottonwood trees of my girlhood in Northern Nevada, and I long to pat a good horse on the neck from the seat of a saddle. (Once this darned kitchen remodel is done that’s where you’ll find me)!

I can hear the laughter at your farm-girl chapter meeting and I’m soaking up all that creativity too!

Your talents are many! So happy you can share them here with us!
Love and happy fall,
Deb

Yes! There is a reason that you always have a HUGE smile on your pretty face! I should say many reasons, since you enjoy so many wonderful activities in your gorgeous section of the country. You always make me have a flurry of activity in the creative department as you are truly inspirational!
Here’s to having a wonderful fall and having more FUN…

Want. Those. Pumpkin. Cookies. NOW! (:

Shery, Once again I was totally absorbed in your latest blog. You sure have a wonderful gift with words and pictures! Fall is my favorite time of year, so I was anxious to read your fall blog, and I wasn’t disappointed! The pumpkins that you all made are so cute, will have to try makin one of those. I always enjoy seeing pics of your beautiful horses.
Happy Fall to you and your family.
Blessings,
Jan

Wow! Our life revolves around grass too – amazing how it keeps us and our animals fed. My husband farms (hay, corn, Herefords) and is a hay broker as well, selling hay all over the east coast. Who would think (besides a fellow rancher/farmer) that your life would be run by grass! Love your post- Meredith

I love your website Shery. I look forward to your beautiful pictures each month. You have such an eye for color and for things of nature. Your pictures always inspire me to put together some of those colors in my home. I too love red!! We’re having an awesome fall in Western NC. The leaves are as beautiful as any I’ve seen. Keep writing and taking pictures. You are so inspiring.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful fall experiences. What a talented group of women you have gathered around you. Look forward to hearing more.

What is the breed name for the white chicken with a few black spots that is shown in your "Fall Work" blog? Thanks!

Give your hubby an "Atta Boy!" for his great hay-stacking abilities!! VERY nice!! I’m hopelessly addicted to haystacks, my "previous life" having been running a boarding/training horse stable in central Texas where ALLLLLLLL the hay is trucked in from somewhere (even from just further out in TX). My eyes are green for a reason when I see a luxurious, abundant PLETHORA of beautifully cured, tightly stacked HAY!!!!!!!!!!

My own DH and kids and I were elk hunting this weekend here in southern Montana, and my heart/mental camera took lots of photos that look so similar to yours down in northern Wyoming… round bales, square bales, huge single-bale high patches and towering 3-high stacks…

Autumn. Haystacks. Harvest finishing. Good working horses and cattle work and pumpkins and the smell of pine and sage in a hunting campfire… I’m filling my lungs and mind with gorgeous air and images, and smiling from ear to ear!!

What a fabulous blog! My first visit and I am completely overwhelmed! I too have a Morgan horse, she’s 21 now and still full of P ‘n’ v! I don’t ride her nearly as much as I’d like to, but just love being with her. She’s starting to get her shaggy "woolly mammoth" winter coat now. Thanks again Shery for the great prose and photos!

Shery, awesome job as usual. can’t wait for next time. your nh friend,cjc

Hi Shery:
WOW! What a wonderful life you have! I love all the pictures especially the ones of the animals. They all look so healthy and loved. I especially like….uh-oh….i like them all! The owl is amazing and doesn’t look as if he likes having his picture taken. The cats, dogs, chickens, cows, horses…wow, you do spread your love around. Then the human animals look well-loved and well-fed also. You certainly shared your little slice of Wyoming well. I’d bet you some people call it heaven!

Shery, Mary Jane, they would make a neat-o purse but its always best to re-sole a great pair of boots. If you haven’t worn the tops and shanks out than they can be regifted. Those are real knock-out stomping boots. Looking good! What a super gift!