Home The simple gifts each day brings can easily be overlooked or taken for granted. For just a moment each day this week I'm making a point to pause, reflect and appreciate. Please join me. (BTW – In the early hours of tomorrow morning a full lunar eclipse coincides with the Solstice, something that hasn't happened since Dec. 21, 1638, according to NASA. Set your clock, witness the full eclipse on the longest night of the year with me – 3:17 a.m. ET.)
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At this time of year, the season of giving, it's so easy to get swept up in the holiday shuffle and bustle. The simple gifts each day brings can easily be overlooked or taken for granted. For just a moment each day this week I'm really making it a point to pause, reflect and appreciate. It feels especially important to me, in a year that has been spectacularly difficult although I'm working on seeing that too as it's own gift. Simple Gifts, day one: Teamwork Mike, Holly and I spent this morning rounding up the remaining sheep at the top
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What a wild way to end the week. I was in Boston Friday for an appointment with my cardiologist, back in time for dinner with good friends last night. This morning I was headed east again (attending a lovely memorial service for my friend's mom). Having spent two days in the car bouncing back and forth on the Mass. Turnpike, I was looking forward to a little quiet time today. A chance to catch my breath, catch up on correspondence, write holiday cards and maybe bake some cookies. But that all went out the window this afternoon just as I
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This morning I wondered why the sheep prefer to camp under the stars along the fence, right up by our house, when they have a perfectly good house of their own at the edge of the paddock. Perhaps they like having a front row seat for the daily theater of humans. The show starts when I raise my bedroom shade just before sunup. Their eyes are instantly on me. They follow my movement through the house, downstairs to the kitchen window. We watch each other while I brew coffee. It's a daily ritual – one of many in the work
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A fresh dusting of snow overnight speaks the undeniable truth: winter is here to stay. A flock of sharp appetites greeted me at the gate this morning. I am grateful for not having to shovel snow today – and for heated water buckets. Snow shovels are on stand-by. Now I need to get serious and put the plow on my truck! Come back tomorrow for an important announcement about Sheep Shares 2011. Until then, stay warm!
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Your kind thoughts have been much appreciated here this week. Our home feels very quiet without Mishka. Even though she was 11 years old and had been sick for a while, she was her fun-loving, sometimes mellow, sometimes nutty self almost right up to the end. I can't tell you how much we miss her. A wintery blast of weather has forced some quick re-arranging of the barn and paddock space. This was the scene in the back of my Highlander yesterday morning. Cinder, Cognac and Bailey hitched a ride back down to the big barns where the whole flock
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A.K.A. Mishka Chillin' in her favorite spots. Celebrating Christmas '08 with her lambie (above) and sisters Emma and Daphne (below). Words are failing me at the moment so I hope the pics say it all. We gave Mishka the best possible day we could give her yesterday. She died peacefully at home. She truly was our Queen of Hearts. Thanks everyone, for keeping her and us in your thoughts this week.
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Thank you much-ly for the great head start on Name-Storming the Lambs. Please feel free to chime in, even if you are "seconding" a previous suggestion; we'll see which themes are most popular. I want to give you a heads up that we're having troubles with our "flock" of golden retrievers, Daphne (age 14, left) and Mishka (age 11, right). You might remember that we've been doing our best to help Mish battle kidney failure since last May. She spent last weekend in the hospital on IV fluid therapy, the second time in 4 weeks. We're trying fluid therapy at
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