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A Day in the Farm Life

by Sandra Bennett
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Sadie watches over Carly who has extremely old bones and, near as I can figure, Carly is 19 or 20,…
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A Normal Day

by Sandra Bennett
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~ Carly Shetland ~ There really aren’t any normal days on a farm although each day brings some of the…
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Lily, meet Levi

by Sandra Bennett
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~ baby Lily ~ Remember way back in September…down at the barn…this little one, mewling, crawling across the loft while…
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Farm Life

by Sandra Bennett
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~ laundry on the line ~ Do you notice as the days, weeks, months, years pass there’s less of you…
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Honey, I’m Home…!

by Sandra Bennett
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~ Canada Geese ~ Like the Canada Geese, I have returned to Thistle Cove Farm and am, mostly, recovered from…
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Lost in the Wonder

by Sandra Bennett
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~ two days ago ~ We’ve had a few days of wild weather here lately; from 60+ degree days to…
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Life: It’s Just So Daily…

by Sandra Bennett
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~ Sadie, ever watchful ~ There’s more than one thing fabulous about living in the Cove but, in the above…
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Farm Work

by Sandra Bennett
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~ material for a table runner ~ WHEW! It’s been a couple of days at Thistle Cove Farm. I suppose…
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Slow Living

by Sandra Bennett
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~ white tailed deer ~ It’s been a winter to remember and it’s not over yet. We’ve had snow…
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Christmas Week

by Sandra Bennett
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~ American Curly horses, waiting for breakfast ~ I’ve not ventured off the farm since the snow storm but…
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Welcome! I’m Sandra, at one time shepherd of the largest flock of colored wool sheep and herd of American Curly horses in Virginia. My homestead roots go deep; as far back as 1654 my Daddy’s people came to the New World for a better life and in May 1995 Thistle Cove Farm was established in the southwest Appalachian mountains of Virginia.

In 2005 the blog began as a journal documenting our handmade, homemade farm life (restoring house, barns, fences, pastures) animal husbandry (hogs, Agatha and Esmeralda The Fabulous Angora-Pygmy Goatini Sisters, rare breed sheep (Carly, Harry, Sophie Shetland triplets who lived to be 22+ years), American Curly horses, black Angus steers, alpacas, cats and dogs), farmhouse kitchen, etc.

Now, since Dave’s death (my beloved husband), I’m taking a new direction and documenting my University course, “Increasing Farm, Homestead, Small Business Income” taught in the USA, Russia and eastern Europe. It’s said when an old person dies, a library is gone forever and seeing as how I’m north of Medicare, I’m doing a brain dump as quickly (haha) as a older, slow woman can go.

While I do have a Uni degree (VCU when they still had a great program), the useful stuff has been learned at The School of Hard Knocks. I’m not a doctor, vet, lawyer, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, etc. so always consult a professional.

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