Hey. Or should I say, hay. It’s Bermuda or fescue now, or alfalfa for the nursing mommas, in addition to the unlimited amount of fresh forage grazing they do plus some occasional supplemental feed. I learned how to move hay off the truck the very first time I drove a tractor yesterday (thanks to Wayne,…
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Have a ducky day! (April newsletter)
Your view changes depending on where you perch The chickens have been perching in a tree each night, along with the guinea hens (the ladder is so we can bring them down and re-train them about their coop because the eggs are everywhere). I’m not sure they are seeing their world differently, but I know…
Radical nonjudgment
So, as I wind down Week 1 of Round America with a Duck (23 more to go!), themes are arising. There are lots of ways to live a life. Simple pleasures. Love prevails. Hope exists in the fact that things keep growing, even when we don’t always know where we’re going. And there are huge,…
Fragile
So I wake to the sound of a crowing rooster and the online news that (yet more) people died in a tornado in the Southeastern USA (where the report says the tornadoes have been getting stronger). Plus, the intense weather is heading towards Metro Atlanta (where I live). I think of my husband, my mother,…
The day 4 gloomies
Okay, so the Day 4 gloomies happened at the farm with the Tiny House where I pilot-tested Round America with a Duck and it happened again yesterday. It was Day 5 since I left my home; Day 4 on this first farm of the trip. So, note to self, maybe it’s a thing. The sudden…
“I lean toward YES!”
“Yes!” I thought to myself when I heard back from the ranch north of Denver. I had just requested a WWOOF workstay as my next stop after Missouri and before Montana while traveling Round America with a Duck (after I had to re-route from the nuns and the alpacas in Kansas due to being grounded…
Heart land (Updated!)
What’s not to love about that face? Photo from Heartland Farm’s website Like in The Grinch, my heart swells three sizes each day right now. I am truly in heart land. “How will I get there from the Greyhound bus stop?” I ask. “I’ll pick you up,” they say, from the horse sanctuary to the…
Mega decision
So I was planning on kicking off my mega-trip Round America with a Duck with Megabus from Atlanta, Georgia to Durham, North Carolina (followed by WWOOF host pickup to the goat farm for birthing season). I’ve enjoyed taking Megabus numerous times, including from Boston to/from NYC several times and from Atlanta to South Florida when my father-in-law fell and broke his…
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way!”
I remember sitting on the carpet in the living room of the barn-shaped house where I grew up in Mineola, New York watching a character in the classic television show The Little Rascals (on reruns) whip down a hill on a runaway go-cart. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way!” he exclaimed, leaning in…
Round America with a Duck 