Update & Prayers

It’s been eerily quiet on my blog lately because I’m desperately trying to get book eight off to the editor… I appreciate your patience with me. With a little luck, I hope to release a sneak peek over the next week or two, so stay tuned.

Another reason for my silence is a few new additions to our homestead. We added our first cow, whose name is still TBD. She’s a Jersey cross yearling, and she taught me very quickly the number one rule of cow ownership: They will humble you. I love our sweet little princess, but her ability to shimmy through fences is astounding.

Our Great Pyrenees/Corgi cross puppies also came home this week. I can’t say enough how much I adore these little fluff balls.

The tri-color one, Po, has become an instant buddy to our older dog, Charlie. They both prefer the company of people and much prefer to spend their time inside, guarding the two-legged members of the family. The brown and white one, Shoeshine, loves to hang out with our Anatolian, Kali. They’d rather be outside than anywhere and love their job guarding the feathered and furred residents of the homestead. Shoeshine is showing a lot of promise as not only a guard dog but a herding dog – just this morning he helped me move the ducks to the pasture as if he’d been doing it his entire life!


On a more serious note, I want to take at least a moment to wish our friends on the East Coast well as Hurricane Sandy prepares to make landfall. You’re in my family’s thoughts and prayers this week. Stay safe and know, for what it’s worth, the rest of the country is thinking of you tonight.