Right after we came home from Hannah’s wedding, (I’ll share pictures when they come in), we headed out to Western Massachusetts to visit a friend’s farm. Originally I met Barb as a fellow fiber vender at the various yarn shows that I did and we have kept in touch somewhat through FB. Barb is incredibly talented and her yarns and fiber were always top notch, coming from the beautiful Corriedale sheep that she raised.

Like the rest of us as we have gotten older, Barb started looking at different ways to keep her farm producing as working with animals and wool is hard on your body (this I know for sure!) She decided to grow flowers and in particular Dahlia’s, along with other various types of flowers. She is also teaching different classes in the studio she has across from the fields. Her fields of flowers are breath-taking.

How beautiful they are!!

We also were able to meet her three little rescue donkeys, such as treat! Mom is 27 along with her 2 daughters who are 25 and 21 and have lived on the farm now for a number of years. What sweet girls they all are! We had a great time listening to swing music, sipping wine, enjoying the beautiful scenery and spending time with friends. Thanks Barb!

Tomorrow we are off to visit nearby Historic Deerfield.
(please bear with me as I learn this new blogging software..ey yi yi!)

Life has a way of changing on a dime at times doesn’t it? On August 26th we had to say goodbye to our last living dog. Gypsy had a wonderful long life, passing at the age of 17 1/2, but it was hard to let go all the same.
I have had Cavaliers for 30 years and many of those years I not only bred Cavaliers, I showed them as well. I also worked for the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club,USA as the National Registration Supervisor for 12 years. My signature was on the pedigrees of all the dogs registered in those years.

I’m not ready for another dog just yet. It will probably be a few years but I can’t imagine life with a dog by my side.

I also received notice that Typepad, the blogging platform that I had used for 24 years was shutting down that same week. Snap!! They gave us a month to figure out how to export all of the data and hopefully all of the pictures. The data part was easy….the pictures, not so much until a friend of mine mentioned a website called “Save my blog”. It was a little pricey not knowing if it was going to work, but “voila” it worked!!

I moved everything here to WordPress. Learning a new platform is going to take time, but I have the bones of a new blog to start with and I am very much looking to moving away from Social Media platforms and spending more time both writing and also reconnecting with the few friends who still blog and hopefully meet some new friends.

Thank you to all of my friends who have stuck by my blog for the better part of 24 years and here’s to 24 more!