Around the "farm" & then some.......

Boy oh boy does this make me laugh! I think about where I started, what happened in between and where I have (at this point in my life) ended up and I can't help but think....God does have a sense of humor....

Most of you know that nearly 3 years ago now Mal and I set out on a new adventure in our lives together. We sold our "forever here on this earth, til we retired & moved, and/or Jesus called us Home or He came back house" and bought just over 10 acres of land not far from there.

We are now here, on our "farm" and we couldn't be happier! We love it here. I use the term "farm" loosely as we don't really have a farm, we have a few animals, etc, but we like to laugh about the change in our lives. We love the land, the daily chores of keeping up with the animals, the grass, the "landscaped" part of the yard & most of all we love the peace and quiet and the fact that most nights we can see the stars in the dark, beautiful sky. There are no city lights to drown them out.

Mal calls our place "little oak" because of all of the little oak trees we have, thus the name of the blog...."little oak life".

I laugh when I think about this because if someone had told me 12 years ago when I met Mal that we'd end up here, I would have laughed really loud, in their face!

Most of you who know Mal well know why this would have been my reaction and most of you who know me can also imagine why this "life' we have now seems very foreign for us. To that I would say that most of you did not know me in my BC life (before Christ)......I grew up on a small tract of land and we had animals; a horse, cows, pigs and a pond full of catfish & my grandfather always, always had chickens and ducks. I rode my horse a lot, almost everyday in fact. I have actually always ridden horses, I was never formally trained, we just got on and tried our best to stay on. I rode from the time I was a little girl (around 7 or so until I became a teenager and I got a machine with lots and lots of horses, my 1st CAR!) I was probably around 16 or so when I stopped riding but always wished that I'd spent more time with her, my horse, instead of doing some of the other things I did.....anyway, I degress.

I am really surprised that we have ended up here, that we now have horses, I have horses again. I am very thankful for our home, our land, and our lives here. Sutherlyn is able to experience things that I never thought she would have the opportunity to experience and I feel as though I have finally come home again.....back where my heart has always been.

So, here is my point.....I stopped for lunch today and took a walk outside, the weather is beautiful. I took some time to photograph some of the things that I see everyday but don't really look at. I hope you enjoy them. Come and see us sometime, we will show them to you too, in person. We might even share some of our fresh eggs with you.

til next time.......