According to Jane Roberts, the author of Seth Speaks, in the astral plane one needs only to think of something to create it. If only I had that power here …………. imagine what I could accomplish! Since I don’t, I have to add action to my imagination. That’s not horrible because I do enjoy the…
September Arrives ………..
There is a definite chill in the air here in Maine. There isn’t any ice or snow yet, so I’m not at all unhappy with the change. This summer has, once again, been a wet one ………… living in the woods, I will take rain over drought any year! I did something unheard of this…
And Yet I Persist
My grandmothers, my sister, and me MANY years ago, I think I was around 4 years old. Shoot only 68 years ago ……………… These two women gave me their genes but left me with something even more important to me: who I am. They were DOERS. I watched both of them make a home with…
Lord Spare Us
I was raised in the 50s and 60s. I know, I know – every generation thinks their childhood years were much better than the present. In my case, they were. We had no 24 hour news station. We didn’t have a 24 hour radio station. There was a computer, but it took up several floors…
Centering
I keep asking myself this question: Is life difficult because it’s difficult or am I making it difficult? I’ve always believed that we all create our own reality by what we think. I still believe this with my whole being – if I manage to think about it ………………… and not just react habitually. One…
Inheritance
Genes are fascinating. Some time ago, I noticed that DNA mavins can now tell what you inherited from which parent. What you inherited, that is, as far as locational DNA. Like I have Scottish genes through both my parents, but English through only my father. Genes are fascinating, but more fascinating to me are the…
Making a Mess
This has been a week!!!!!!!!!!!! I won’t bend your ear about politics – it’s just way too surreal for words. Like people just found out the president is missing …………. everyone must be the three blind monkeys??? I can’t take anymore, so it’s time to dye. I managed to dye 6 yards of hemp knit…
The God of the Sea
Life may get a little foggy today as Neptune stations and turns retrograde until December. Knowing what to expect is an exciting prospect. Neptune, the God of the Sea, Poseidon ……….. the Ruler of Pisces, the wishy-washy dreamer, building castles in the air, believing everything you hear, horribly intuitive dreams and waking experiences …………… these…
Be Greedy of Occasions to Express Your Thought …………….
This photo was taken from the truck, on the road, with an iPhone …………. no wonder I don’t own a spiffy new camera. In the morning when my husband gets a little extra sleep and after I put my feline torturer outside …………… I read Henry David Thoreau’s Journal. I indulged myself and bought the…
Be Here Now ………….
Believe me when I say, that being here now is the only way. I know how hard it is. Keeping yourself focused on where you are …………….. not where you were ……………………. where you want to be ……………….. where you think you’d be happier ……………… not easy. Like anything else, being here now, in the…
Self-Sufficient and Self-Efficient
Today, I’m hiding. It’s like 400 degrees in the shade up here! I’m inside, which will probably not improve my container garden, but there’s no way I’m leaving the air conditioning. We seldom, if ever, have a heat index over 100 degrees. We’re almost as far north as you can get. Not much farm work…
Gardening, Sewing, and Reading
This is an old photo. I must have been about 3 years old. That’s quite a few decades ago, I’m afraid. Both of my grandmothers, Nannie and Hattie, are gone now ……………. but not gone. I learned something from each of them. Today I want to tell you about Grandma Hattie. She was an educated…
The Life and Times of a Serial Procrastinator
I quickly looked at the astrological aspects hitting my natal chart today, and there he is – Pluto. No way Pluto is a DWARF planet, Maybe he’s smaller than other planets, and I can only thank God that he is …………… I’m afraid if he were any larger, I would have vaporized in the last…
When I Was Called Rachael
In 1987, I graduated from university. Finally, 18 years after I started. I thought that having a degree would help me get a job that was more of a career. You know, less direction and more directing? Well, that was a laugh. I got nothing after college, except disillusioned. I had intended on going to…
That Quiet Space ……………
I don’t know if I’m the only one ………….. or if everyone has this THING …………. I have always “done” something. It was embroidery when I was little ……………. Grandma Nannie taught me to do that. She had fun teaching me to use my right hand instead of my left. Now I can’t sew with…
On The Road
It’s been a busy week here at Happy Shepherd Farm. I think the busy started the moment I got here, actually. Every day there’s SOMETHING. We were sitting here, talking to another farmer friend of ours and he asks us if we want 6 pigs. He was moving and thought he wouldn’t be able to…
Freeze Warning
I am so sorry to see summer/fall go away. It’s cold up here. We’ve had two nights of frost, all my tomatoes, whether green or red, have been picked. I think I have about 15 pounds of tomatoes to deal with today. I spent yesterday doing an astrology reading, blanching broccoli, roasting peppers and keeping…
Mercury Backwards ………….
It’s cold. I know it will warm up again, but not much and not for long. My tomatoes will either get ripe, or not. In case you think you’re losing your mind, you’re not. Mercury went retrograde (this makes no sense but it only LOOKS like it’s going backward and it does this several times…
Stinkie Got Sick
The little guy in the back is Stinkie. The pink one in the front is Pinkie (I am SO IMAGINATIVE) and the red lady is Bess. Bess had a little friend, also red, called Porgie, but he shuffled off to Buffalo in August, not being able to take the heat wave. Losing a pig to…
So Now I’m KETO?
I dunno. I say that because I’m trying to learn a new way to cook. Not just cook! I’m learning a new way to live …………… Way back in March, my husband decided to lose weight. I listened (because it was on) to multiple YouTube videos by “doctors” opining on what you should eat, when…
And then there are two
These lovely people are my parents way back in 1961. We were at a family reunion of the Keller family in Gibson City, Illinois. Mom looked like she wasn’t having a bad time. I’m not sure about Dad – somehow he looks like he would rather be somewhere else. LOL My mom was a traditional…
Harvest Moon ……………
My garden has been beautiful this year. Last year I couldn’t do any gardening at all – NOTHING. This year my knee is AWESOME and I can walk and bend and run, if I wanted to. I don’t want to. We had our first frost warnings Monday night. I’m okay with frost at this point….
On the Subject of Creativity …………..
I have a bit of a problem. See, The Shepherd decided we need a new wood stove. I agree 100% and in fact it is almost ready to hook up. I’m hoping it will take him a few more days because I KNOW HE WILL GO GET WOOD AND MAKE A FIRE. And it is…
Cleaning House – Well, Part of the House
I am only posting that picture in order to shame myself into organizing (cleaning) my sewing room, a/k/a studio. I have a problem with the word studio. It sounds like I’m a productive artist person – which tickles my guilt bone – because I SHOULD BE A PRODUCTIVE ARTIST PERSON and instead I am a…
Mercury Retrograde and Being a Pain
I like doing this stuff, you know. Messing with colors, sprinkling on dyes and saturating the cloth with soda ash …………….. waiting FOREVER to see what it looks like – I love it. Then I like actually DOING something with the fabric. I’ve been on a garment sewing kick since 2008 when I bought my…
Imogene the Precious
Here she is! This is ImmaJean and she’s 5 years old and cuter than a bug in a rug. She’s super mellow too, which helps blending in here in The Shephed’s Den extremely easy. It’s been a LONG TIME since I had a kitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss all of them and I am so happy to…
COVID-19 and the Fear of Death
I want to distill for you what is happening in our world, right now, at this moment, for the last year and a half. The Cosmic Consciousness, God, the Universe – however you want to describe the spirit that is found IN EVERY LAST ONE OF US – wants us to come to terms with…
All Gone!
Yesterday was another busy day at Happy Shepherd Farm. We wake up early, get up, drink coffee and decide what the day will look like. Fortunately or unfortunately, over the last month, the days are out of our control. I was getting dressed and Alden was sitting in his chair when someone knocked at the…
Spring Plans
The Shepherd earned points today. He drove me all the way to Caribou to pick up my new to me Bernette for Bernina 009dcc Coverlock/Coverstitch machine. I used to have a serger. I didn’t particularly care for it although it did make knit t-shirts a breeze. I think this is better than a serger. It…
Exodus Chapter 1
It’s been four years ……….. four years since the girls who are leaving us today, first arrived at Happy Shepherd Farm. It was called Poor Shepherd Farm back then. There was a lot of work, a dang lot of work, but there wasn’t a whole lot of green stuff, except for grass and weeds. Curious…
Old Photos and Memories
My mother was great for saving things. She had old quilt blocks from my Great Grandmother Mary Eleanor and her two daughters stored in the attic since 1958. I got them in 1987. And did I use them! At first, I was so worried they would disintegrate in water, I could barely stand to wash…
Is it the time change?
I don’t know what’s going on, but I do think time is telescoping or something. I get up every morning at 6 something. I have my coffee, read The Writer’s Journal by Thoreau and, before you know it, it’s 10 am and I haven’t done a thing. How can anyone sit for 4 hours with…
March 18 Two Days Until Spring!
Oh the days are getting soft! What a beautiful start to spring here in the woods of Southern Aroostook County we are having! Lest we get too excited, I have to remind The Shepherd of our last two end of winters. Everything was beautiful and green. In 2019 we set out my seedlings so they…
Creating …………….
I wish I could remember how long ago I bought this fabric. It’s been at least 3 years – I think. Finally, I’m using it. I would show you what I’m using it on, except I can’t get my picture to upload. I’ll work on it. This new iPhone is almost beyond me. I traded…
New Moon – Open to New Ideas
New beginnings, new moon, spring in 6 days – life is good. This is the time to start that project you’ve been thinking about over the last two weeks – since the Full Moon. This is a time when the Universe will support you. Actually, the Universe will support you, whatever you decide to do…
My Love Affair with Henry David Thoreau
Reading has always been the foremost pleasure in my life. I do tend to read junk for relaxation, but only mystery junk. I like the Golden Age mysteries from the 1920s and 30s. I detest the blood and gore and guts in modern fiction, as I do in modern movies. There is so much I…
Time is Money
I go from absolutely no inspiration, complete despondency, total disinterest in life and living to the energizing, inspiring, thrilling and adventurous moods of a creator. I can’t live in anyone else’s head, but there are times when I would love to get out of mine. This isn’t one of those times. I am inspired by…
The Man of My Dreams
This man, this lovely, happy man, is my father. The man of my dreams, except that he certainly wasn’t a dream, but real. I can hardly describe my father, today, 20 years and some odd months after his death. I only know that each day that comes, I think of something my dad would say…
Soul Despair
I wrote this post 3.5 years ago. It is even truer now. We have gone from being the hated deplorables to domestic terrorists …………….. although the ones terrorizing us are the ones pointing their fingers. For once in my life, I am not reacting to what I am seeing on the news or the internet….
The Lamb that Saved the Farm
This little girl (I think, more about that later) saved the farm yesterday. She made her appearance between 8:30 am and 12:00 and she floored The Shepherd with her markings. We’ve never had a lamb like this before, although last week Mandy did give us one gray/black baby ewe with black legs. You can see…
Mercury Retrograde and I Can Tell
There’s all sorts of neat Mercury Retrograde things happening these days. Like we have this tractor. This tractor is OLD. It’s OLD as in it was made in 1955 or so. It’s a John Deere M 50 and it has needed a bit of work. Right now? It won’t start. It has been in the…
The Definition of Cute
These are the first two lambs born this season and the second two who were just born about a half an hour before this video was taken. I just can’t get over how they run around and are so alert within hours of birth! Raising these lambs is a heart ache, for both of us….
Art, Stars, Sheep, and CHEESE?
The art and the star part of this journal is getting short shrift. I promise to make it up in the near future. You might want to just relax until the 11th. There are some annoying aspects flying around up there now and after the 11th we should have a much easier time of it!…
Lambs Lambs Lambs
I figured out when we were supposed to start lambing this season. It’s not scientific, I just note the date our ram (Randy) won’t leave the girls alone. He had a bit of a rough time this year because we had several of his sons that were old enough to compete for the ewe’s attention….
We’re Having Baby Lambs
It’s started! I was a few days off in my 145 day calculation regarding the arrival of babies. I don’t do it scientifically. I just notice when Randy won’t leave the girls ALONE and I figure 145 days from that. He is a randy old ram! We raise our sheep on the “pretend they’re on…
A Day to Do Nothing
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That is my plan for the day. Well, except laundry. I have two mountains of clothes to fold in the laundry room, which is ridiculous because there are only two of us. I have done laundry for a week but not folded it. If The Shepherd paid attention, he would be appalled….
Finding Truth
After the aggravation of the last few years (4 years), I have decided it is time for me to get back into my life and out of the world-confusion. My spiritual path has cliffs on it – I occasionally fall off. I’m climbing back on my path, just like my Capricorn symbol, the mountain goat….
Keep the World Out – It’s Not Real
It’s true. What you see as “The World” is just a projected set of incidents coming from the minds of the collective. Not the TRUE Cosmic Consciousness, but the little, small, petty, angry, hateful and disgusting minds of the humans alive in the world today. Don’t participate. That’s all. you can do. Don’t get caught…
Ridding the World of Evil
Where DOES evil come from? You can’t look anywhere in our society today and not feel the palpable, boiling, nasty, disgusting, horrendous, obnoxious EVIL that has overtaken it. When did human decency disappear? Why? I spend most of my time ignoring this world-confusion. I see it as an optical illusion, a chimera, not at all…
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