week 9: what about you?
this week on the little dream farm
How are you doing?
Enough about me already.
What about you?
How are you doing?
Here’s a few questions you might like to take a stab at one or all of them and tell me all about it in the comments of today’s Farm Note. Maybe we can have a little chit chat!
How are you really doing?
What’s made you smile this week?
What’s kept you up at night?
What’s something wonderful or lovely going on in your life right now?
Care to share a bit about a thing you’re dealing with?
If you could give one piece of advice to everyone right now, what would it be?
I’m so curious to read what’s on your mind and what’s going on with you!
A few things from me…
Just a few things from here on the farm this week:
The Big Bray
Finally caught a video of Molly-Max braying! It’s taken from inside through the kitchen window but you can still hear him sound off loud and clear! This old boy demands his hay! This is how they let us know they’re hungry…like now!
The Little Mighty Hawk
How about that time a hawk got itself stuck in the chicken coop? The poor thing wore itself out so good trying to escape the glass windows but finally helped to free it by gently guiding it out of the coop with a broom. Think it may have gotten to one of the hens before flying into the coop but thankfully the hen is a-ok and healed up just fine.
March’s Book Club read:
Got through this book in three sittings and loved every minute of it. I joined my village local book store monthly book club this year and highly suggest picking this up from your local bookstore or maybe even your local library!
January’s Book: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon - loved reading this during winter here in Upstate NY!
February’s Book: Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill - a very long read but wonderfully done.
July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
A “Sarah’s Favorite”:
This is the electric stand up desk I got in the 40x24 Rustic Brown
In support of my recovery of the four thoracic bulging discs (cervical spine MRI “unremarkable” - thank heavens!) it’s high time I got a standing desk for the guest room where I spend most of my day while I’m working. Just set it up on Friday and am really happy with the selection and new setup. Here’s to healing!
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I just hit the one year mark of my husbands passing. Although it’s of course easier than a year ago I still cry at least a little most days. But I have no choice but to move on. My cat and my grandson make me happy. And a new baby girl coming in April. What worked best for me was joining groups and being with people as much as possible. That’s my ‘new’ life although I miss my old life with my husband more than I can say.
How am I doing? I am looking for some relief from sadness, worry and grief. It’s been a difficult year and a half. We have lost three cats, my mother in law, my oldest brother and, earlier this week, very unexpectedly, our dog. It’s difficult to just get through a day anymore with all that is happening right now in our country. I’m struggling. I know I’m not alone.