Category: Farm Update
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One Year In
The call of mating red-tails fills the air as they gracefully swoop and chase each other from pine to oak, back to pine, frolicking, circling, diving around the house and our woods. These are our red-tails, the pair that live amongst our trees, hunt in our pasture, and perch upon our newly placed fence posts.…
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Summers End at the Lazy Moon
Summer ended abruptly a couple of weeks ago with a cool rain and a break in the heat. Our kiln dried hillside began its process of reawakening as the rains permeated the dirt bringing life to the roots that had laid dormant through the summer heat. While the hillside may have lazy slumbered through the…
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May at Lazy Moon
Our bedroom windows face the eastern sky and as such the room lightens every morning with the dawn. Even before that the birds who call the eastern oak forest home begin their morning calls. Even in my half sleep state I can hear the song begin softly and grow. I haven’t compelled myself to begin…
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April at Lazy Moon – Home again
Last week at about this time we brought the remainder of our possessions out of Sonoma County and straight to the property. Our intention had always been to store most of our stuff while we sold our house in Santa Rosa and began our search in earnest in El Dorado county. Yet, as most good…