{"id":3018,"date":"2022-02-20T20:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildflower-farm.com\/2022\/?page_id=3018"},"modified":"2024-11-16T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:53:12","slug":"gazette-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wildflower-farm.com\/index.php\/gazette-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Grief And Joy Loss And Rebirth<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

I have been avoiding this blog. Because somehow posting some of what has happened will somehow make it feel real and official. I have been feeling very tired, emotionally wrung…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Onnea!!!<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

The sun was shining and the still, winter, dead, land smelled of mud, cold, and damp, when I woke up to the most amazing miracle of perhaps all time on…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n The Second Coming Of The Blizzard Of 78<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

My feet crunch in the snow on the top step from the house out into the 5 acre abyss of whiteness, that Pikku, is painting yellow. She stands beside me,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Keeping It Weird And We Aren't In Oregon anymore... Never were actually<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Yes, that is in fact a chicken riding a goat. Sometimes, that chicken even tries to produce future offspring with that goat. Barn yards can be weird places. Sometimes even…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Snow Storms, Cold, and Cozy<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

The snow reflects the light of the sun back into the blue sky. The cold, has been, horrendous and it isn’t going to let up any time soon. It’s so…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n The Expansion Of Winter<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

A hitch that smells of cold apple blossoms has attacked the farm. It is holding up the finishing touches on our plans for Christmas decor. Depriving us of the ability…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Keeping It Out Of The Ocean<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Last night the air was cold, and something truly beautiful and magical began to happen… The dark sky opened up and small white falling crystals of water fell, descending gradually…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Magical... The Northern Lights<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Outside, the night is dark and cold. Inside, I sit by the wood stove that is cranking out heat for my comfort. Soon, I will allow the fire to die…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n 3 Sisters Sanctuary Out In Western MA<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

My back is aching, no make that my entire body. Every muscle is screaming from contortions I forced myself into to clean the pantry, on this cool, grey day, with…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Hello to New Friends<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

I just came in to warm radiating from the fired up wood stove. I was just outside in the soggy grass walking over the quickly cooling drenched brown earth. New…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n A Shot Rings Out In The Dark<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

I can smell the shot fired. It hangs in the darkness like a stink and a stain on my little utopia, the smell of gun fire will never fade. Not…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Carnage.<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

What makes this way of life hard, is the tragedy. The loss of time and investment. The strike at your heart every time something tears into your infrastructure and functioning…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Punked!<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Most people are unaware, that when the sky is blue with small wispy clouds and temperatures rise into a range one might expect on Venus, rather than earth, goats get…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n By The Woods<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

When I went out to milk this morning, I discovered a day so yucky outside that the goats hid in their shed glaring at me. It was a bit like…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n Surprise!!!<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Waking up first thing in the morning is always hard. No one wants to leave the land of sleep… The land of oblivious relaxed peace where every problem we have…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article>

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\n The Importance Of Home<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

The sky was bright and the trees smelled beautiful as the fragrance of the woods mingled with the fragrance of the spring earth…. That smell that makes me giddy with…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div>

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