Hello from Jamie!
Hello! If you’ve been checking out this website then you know farm life is hard!
We like to get away from it when we can and have taken some great trips over the last few years.
Our favorite destination is Soliman Bay in Tulum, Mexico
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I publish the monthly Southeastern Destination Guide “The Busy Bee Trader,” www.busybeetrader.com, but never seem to have enough room in my “Letter from the Publisher” so I decided this could be my letter “extension.”
My husband, Wally, is one of the owners at Millers Cafe in Christiana, Tenn., one of Tennessee’s favorite unique restaurants.
www.millersgrocery.com
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Compost, Chicks & More: March 2009
The weather has just been crazy - 70 degrees one week and in the 20s and 30s the next with snow! Those warm balmy days had us outside working away. We built a new compost corral to start utilizing all our resources to create some “black gold” for our garden and flowerbeds. Four fence posts, some rough-cut lumber and old tin from the barn roof and we were ready. We made it wide enough we could get our skid-steer loader inside it to stir and load.
Our first ingredient was 30 garbage bags of
Sunday, February 15, 2009 - Plan, Plant, Feed & Fix!
Life on the Farm: February 2009
Spring is in the air! I know it will probably freeze again, but the first warm balmy days have me outside working myself to death. Life on the farm is a constant challenge and there’s always something to plan, plant, feed or fix. The baby calves have been arriving and those rambunctious little rascals are so cute! The downside is you have to check the herd every day for sick calves, feed rolls of hay every few days, add salt and minerals to their troughs and monitor calving mommas. We’ve had
We travelled to Scotland, England and Amsterdam with Wally’s “Ogles” family
Summer 2008: Scotland, England & Amsterdam
Wally’s mother’s family, the Ogles, were holding a family reunion in Morpeth, England just north of Newcastle Upon Tyne in July, and we decided it was now or never for our trip to the United Kingdom. His great uncles and cousins were going and I figured this was the only way I was going to get him to go. I had been wanting to visit Scotland forever and since the reunion was in northeastern England that borders on Scotland it worked out perfect. We fly into Edinburgh and rented a car - a scary
We spent 10 days in San Pedro, Belize scuba diving and relaxing.
November 2007: San Pedro, Belize
Our friends, Darcy and Tom White asked us to join them on a dive trip to San Pedro, Belize on Ambergris Caye, and of course we couldn’t say no! We stayed at a great place right on the beach that was brand new, Caye Caulker. The dives were amazing! I spied a loggerhead turtle and we all got to check her out up close on one dive. We got to pet nurse sharks and saw tons of great fish. We snorkeled in Stingray Alley where there were tons of stingrays and fish. It used to be a favorite place
