little_valley_farm

01/26/2025

I have never felt so understood. I feel like I should send this to every person I date and just be like “yes. This is my big crazy. Plan accordingly and bring snacks.”

10/02/2024

I don’t have full cell or internet converge, when I do, please don’t worry about a drunk dial telling you individually how much I deeply love you. Apperently the need to emotionally lick everyone’s face is a normal gratitude (and guilt) rush after realizing the sh*tty thing that happened to you could have been a thousand times sh*ttier.

(Sorry mom, I swore again.)

05/28/2024

Sometimes the answer is “to confuse the neighbors.”

05/28/2024

I feel like I should add a blessed hash tag here but that doesn’t resonate with me. This bowl or eggs represents a lot of planning, caretaking, investment of time, emotion, and money. HOWEVER! Every time I gather the eggs I think how magical it is, and the gratitude seeps in, even when I’m picking up the eggs and a broody chicken is pecking my hands.

05/28/2024

I finally found a job for Timber. As it turns out, a neurotically attached super athlete rough and tumble dog makes a phenomenal trail dog. She’s destroyed my house, has a taste for live chicken and raids the coop for eggs, but she is worth her wait in gold on the trail.

05/28/2024

Just as a summer storm blew over the mountain to sea trail, I found the perfect umbrella.

05/28/2024

05/28/2024

Weird evening spent with frisbee golf practice and a ladder.

05/23/2024

Even when I’m covered in goat p**p, crying because my chickens dug up all the onions, dogs ran through the dahlias, and the elderflower syrup went bad, I can still laugh and feel full up from my besties.

05/23/2024

I don’t know what it would be like anymore not to see the moon rise over the mountain beyond my apple tree fence line. I can’t feel empty when I swing in my hammock chair hung under the crab apple tree and look out onto that vista. When I feel my world dissolve into anxiety, or scarcity, or fear, it’s this simple view and the sounds of the creek that force those feelings out. Im left with a tranquil space to fill up with hope. I pray at night not to anyone or anything in particular, but to the unnamed force that cradles my home and children and animals. I get to pour thanks into it completely.

05/14/2024

The old adage “if you don’t like the weather in WNC, just wait ten minutes.” Was proven false today. I was on a walk with my dogs and it started to rain. Everyone ran for cover. I, smugly walked on, knowing the torrential downpour could not last long. Ten minutes later I was drenched and the rain had not let up. I walked twenty more and gave up. The bad news is my dog and I are cold and soaked, the good news is I won the weaverville wet teeshirt contest in the 40+ category, undisputed. So,
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05/14/2024

Tonight I got very lost and ended up in west Asheville. The sun had set and I was getting very nervous when I saw this big guy. I was so tickled I smiled all the way back the four extra miles to my car. Ok I did not smile the ENTIRE four miles back to my car but like… I smiled for several minutes.