News from Cloverleaf farm

Still not able to ski, rats! It's more like ice skiing but the grandkids had a great day sledding on their day off school. While they were at it my son-in-law cleaned out my wood stove chimney. My daughter and I had a good visit then all of us while we ate some of Grandma Teenie's Vegetable Beef Soup. I have the recipe for it in my free newsletter " Health Foods from the Grocery Store" You can get here:
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And i got my first comment on this blog and know we will be friends. Thanks, Silver

Jan 7,2009 Today's adventure

When I was bringing wood from the barn to the house today I looked up
to see the chimney of the wood stove leaning and about to pushed over by
about a foot or more of snow behind it. Thankfully my grand-son-in-law's
brother was nearby and came over to clear away the snow before any
more damage was done. So tomorrow will mean new chimney parts and
more roof walking, hopefully all will be well before we get more snow.

Writing

I am focused on writing my historical book about Mary Walker. She was a pioneer missionary to Oregon in 1838.
I have already given several presentations portraying her but my goal is to take the book on a nationwide tour following her route from her home across the United States. She did 2000+ miles on a sidesaddle, before wagon trains.

Notes from Cloverleaf Farm

Mon Jan 5, 09 Kids are back in school, two hours late after the latest storm and 4-5 more inches of snow on top of the 3' we had. Two of the oldest horses died over the weekend, they were both about 30 years, which is old for a horse. The kids were sad of course as they were the first horses they rode. One fun highlight was having a dozen or so deer trying to dig into the garden. Snow is up to their bellies so they didn't have much success.
I never thought there would be too much snow here for me to x-c ski but there is. Wish someone had a snowmobile to make some trails. Well need to get to my book writing for today.