Archive March 2012

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The Feast Of Trumpets

 

Curse not the month of bluster and tumbling bonnets, for it takes a blast of many trumpets to loosen winter's claws of ice. Ancient Jews held a festival in March in which trumpets owned the air. A jubilant chorus of brass marked the end of a season and the beginning of a new one. Indeed, there is something victorious sounding in the blowing of a horn!

 

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Pitter-Patter Potpourri

 

Greetings farmgirls! Spring hasn't sprung in our part of the country yet and I have a raging case of spring fever (an annual occurance). I have pansies on the brain ... among other things. This time of year, I always wonder if perhaps the greenhouses have any in stock yet. I should know better by now, but that doesn't stop feverish visions.  I'm afflicted with both spring fever and cabin fever, so, I've been trying to maintain a good mindset by doing a variety of indoor things. If you're a feverish farmgirl too, c'mon in, have a spot of tea & sit a spell.  

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Shery Jespersen with her horse

Shery Jespersen,
Wyoming cattle rancher and outpost writer (rider), shares the “view from her saddle.” Shery is a leather and lace cowgirl who’s been horse-crazy all of her life. Her longtime love is Apple Pi “Dolly” Rose, a 20-year-old Morgan otherwise known as “The Best Darn Horse in the Universe.” Her other interests include “junktiques,” creating eclectic “make do” arts and crafts, collecting antique china, and cultivating mirth.

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Cowgirl pose

“I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
– John Muir.