TALU Tuesday

I'd like to apologize to all my wonderful and faithful TALU buddies. Last week I was unable to get the linky code up on time. And when I finally got it on, I had no time to hop around and comment like I usually do.

I AM SO SORRY!

I hope you can forgive me and we can all still be friends.

So. Here's hoping that everything runs like clockwork this week. Fingers crosssed....

Welcome to the TALU Tuesday!

That's right, the Tuesday Archive Link-Up.

Time to pull your treasured old posts out of those cobwebby archives, dust them off, and give them new life where they will be seen and enjoyed by untold millions OK, thousands of viewers.

See, this link-up is hosted by several people, who, all together have thousands upon thousands of followers. So when you link your post up with this party? Your post will show up on all their blogs, to all of their followers.

All you've got to do is:

1) link up your post using the linky tool below,

2) visit the hosts and leave a comment to say hi, if you'd like,

3) and try to visit three or more of the blogs linked up and leave a comment. They'll all be doing the same, so it's like a giant hippie love fest. Bring your own flowers.







Oh and when you comment? Put in the secret code "TALU" (Tuesday Archive Link-Up) and then give a little wink so we'll all know what you're talking about.

Have fun!

Now here are your TALU hosts, wonderful gals every one....



Jennifer, author of I Am Not Superwoman

Anne, author of Life On The Funny Farm

Debbie, author of Wrinkled Mommy

Kenya, author of Here's The Thing...

Shanna, author of Motherhood On The Rocks.

Rachel, author of Homesteading Quest













PS: If you've never participated in a link-up/blog hop before, and you have any trouble, try clicking here for some tips.



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Mirth Monday

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Inspiration Sunday

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And I'll answer right back because I'm, you know, the Mom.

Miracles and Moments of Grace

So you've probably already heard my news if you follow me on Facebook, but I have a piece in a book that was just published!

The book is called Miracles and Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories From Moms, and it's a compilation of stories of motherhood, edited by Nancy B. Kennedy.

My contribution is the story of when I met my Bella, as told through her eyes. Perhaps you've read it before on my blog, but now you can read it in print, along with 49 other wonderful stories.





I'd like to give away two copies of this book to my followers. I will choose two names randomly from anyone leaving a comment that they're interested.

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Farm Friday: Farm-ily Planning

It's that time of year again.

T minus twelve days till the vernal equinox.

Time to let my overactive gardening and farming ambitions get the better of me.

Let the delusional planning begin.



Where I had my pumpkins last year? I want to put in cucumbers.

The kids eat 'em like candy as soon as they come in, and we never seem to have enough.


All along the whole long stone wall? I want to try pumpkins again. They'll get more sunlight there, and I'm hoping that will mean the difference.







As in, maybe we'll actually get a few.



And I'll put sweet potatoes in the secret garden.


Termaters and peppers and herbs and scallions and assorted yumminies in the actual vegetable garden.



And I haven't even gotten started on the animals.


I'm gonna get 50 cornish-rock chickens to split with my friend Theresa.






Since I'm ordering poultry anyway, I'll probably throw in a few more layers. And I've always wanted a few ducks, maybe I'll get me some runners. Should I get a turkey or two?


And there's the building projects.

I want to make a hay feeder to keep in the upper field, and maybe a chicken tractor for the meat birds, and I want to build a little pen to keep a few hens in the garden to till it up some before I plant stuff.

And do I maybe want to get a pig?

Or a cow?

If I do, I'll need to make a few updates to my fencing and gates.

On a smaller scale, maybe I'll get a buck for my Alice and start breeding Flemish Giants.  They're so cool.







Buzz...buzz.....buzz.......buzz....




Time to wake up.

Wake up to reality. 

Chicken coop?  Not finished.  Not even clean.

The barn is a wreck.  A tangle of wood scraps and cobwebby chicken wire and knotted baling twine and busted palates and empty feed bags.

You could say just about the same for my house.

Finding time for more projects? Two of my three horse aren't even broke to ride.

My dog's claws look like something out of Guinness.

And I just started back to work!

The only talk of vegetables should be what's on sale at the store.

The only talk of critters should be whose turn it is to clean up the dog poop and bring in the eggs.




Someone please hit me over the head with a shovel.

Just not one of my shovels from the barn.



I've been meaning to clean that.....




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I-Need-Therapy-Thursday: How Many Fingers...?

My grocery store has a policy where they give you 3 cents back for every reusable bag you use instead of plastic.





Usually I bite my tongue and try to keep my indignation at the inadequacies of the educational system in check when the youngsters struggle to navigate their way through their three times tables.

But not long ago the manager was ringing me up, so I thought I wasn't going to have to stress over the lack of rudimentary math skills.

And plus? I had an even 10 bags.

So you can imagine my horror when this GROWN A** WOMAN

counted on her fingers

to calculate 3 x 10.



I'm not making this up, people.

My special-needs, learning support, reading at a third grade level teenager could handle that math problem without resorting to body parts.

But hey, you know, why bother spending money in schools? What's wrong with closing school after school after school and consolidating and overcrowding and passing kids along without making sure they learn anything?

That's what they make calculators for, right?

Instead of directing more of our tax dollars to our schools, let's earmark money to implanting calculators in people's wrists, so we never have to add or multiply in our heads. That's soooo old school, and this is the age of technology, after all.




aftr all, no 1 botherz w splling n gramr nymor so why bother w math? sch a waste of time....





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Wordless Wednesday

Look who's gainfully employed!












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But I can't hit 'reply',
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Please don't judge me,
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If you have a question that just can't wait,
Send me an email at farmbeachgal@yahoo.com,
And I'll answer right back because I'm, you know, the Mom.