SO MUCH TO DO / Kansas Farm Life / Carolyn’s Natural Soap / Reid Ranch

ENJOY

What is so good about my life?  Would I do it over again? Would I change anything?  What about you, would you do it over or change anything?  Now that I’m getting older and am still feeling good, I have no regrets.

No thoughts of sorrow or wishing this or that, just one change in my ways, and that would be to  ENJOY not working.  I have always kept myself so busy that some times I’ve missed or can’t enjoy all that is around me.  Work has become my joy and I can’t for the life of me slow down. 

My father is to blame as he put the thoughts and set the example.  He told me “ Carolyn, you must learn to enjoy the struggles of life.” Learn to enjoy struggles? “ Yes, life is not easy and whatever we do we must learn to enjoy it.”  That’s exactly what I’ve tried to do and now I see the rewards of learning to enjoy whatever I must do. 

Living free and over worked, has great rewards.  Now the two of us,[Brian and me} work the farm and find great peace in each project and there is so much yet to be done.        

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My Donkey Jethro, our guardian of the herd / Fresh Kansas Farm Products / Soap, Cheese, Milk, Eggs / Farm Animals/ Goats, Cows, Chickens

Yesterday, I  spent a couple hours loving and caring for my friend Jethro.  After brushing and cleaning his feet, he hand I went for a walk. When I put him back in the field, he called to me  HEE HA, HEE HA , that’s telling me, thanks and I’ll see you later. 

You see Jethro is the care taker of our cows and goats.   He’s so smart he often can get into trouble but he always learns by his curious nature and humbles himself to his masters authority. 

 

I truly have learned from experience what a donkey is all about.  As a young girl I had donkeys.  My father was a gold and quick silver miner in the California winters, and he bought a donkey as a pack animal.  I became a donkey lover ever since.

'’A DONKEY IS PATIENCE “ a real blessing from a great creator.      

 

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Patience / Fresh Farm Products / Soap, Cheese, Milk, Eggs/ Farm Animals / Jersey Cow, Chickens, Goats, Donkeys

Who is Jethro?

  

Jethro has tender eyes that can speak . He has the the strongest back and shoulders.  His mouth and lips open to show he teeth at the smell of fresh coffee.  We have often enjoyed a cup of coffee together in the crisp morning air.  His hair is gray and usually dirty but warm.  He looks for predators in the field at all times and sounds his alarm if one if near. 

Jethro has no other family except those whom he cares for and helps to protect from danger.  He has  long tall ears and wears a cross aver his shoulders.  His history is long and his service to man is memorable.  Have you guessed who he is?

 

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California Not like Kansas / Carolyn’s Natural Soap / Reid Ranch Products / Farm Life

Kansas is quite different then California where I grew up.  My Dad was a farmer too, but had to irrigate the orchards and alfalfa fields most all summer. 

Here we work around the rain to get the hay cut and in the barn because it seems to rain more then not.

In California   the gardens and flowers had to be watered often and the weeds were not much of a problem.

Here we wait for the rain to water our flowers and gardens and most often the rain will come but after the rain the work begins anew.

  MY DAD IN CALIFORNIA

I’m not complaining I’m really counting my blessings.  California is so fertile in land and sea but Kansas is also fertile in hope and productivity.

Carolyn

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Tomatoes From Scratch / Carolyn’s Natural Soap / Reid Ranch Products / Farm Life

This week we will plant the tomato plants I’ve started in the house  before they take over the living room.  I suppose most of you already have your plants in your gardens.  If you get tomatoes before us, could you  bring me one .  Thanks

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Did The Chicken come first? / Carolyn’s Natural Soap / Reid Ranch Products / Farm Life

What came first the chicken or the egg?

We hatched 30 chicks out of 40 eggs. Each egg that cracked and opened brought new excitement to the children and each grandchild picked one to call their own. The problem with this was they all looked alike. The rooster that fathered these little chicks is a Polish chicken. It’s not that we don’t have other roosters we do, but this funny looking Polish must catch the hens when the others are not looking. All the chicks except for 5 are black with a yellow hat and bib with yellow under bellies. They really look like little Penguins.

We started another batch today and if all goes well they should hatch June the 3rd. We might have developed a new breed. Ha ha. The Chicken, that’s who came first without a doubt.

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