The Farm Girl's Notebook

December 13, 2018   It should not surprise any of you that I love words, writing, words that are handwritten, thoughts that are typewritten—anythin...

 December 7, 2018 Occasionally, I get obsessed with shopping for the “perfect” blankity blank. One time the search for raw silk ribbon had me wande...

I wrote the following a week ago, last Thursday, just hours after the unfathomable happened in our little town of Thousand Oaks. However, soon afte...

November 1, 2018   Survived another Halloween. Barely. While there is nothing I really enjoy about this “holiday,” I have never lost that excitemen...

 October 25, 2018 It’s not a secret that I love grammar and anything that deals with writing. Not that I’m flawless, but I am constantly honing my ...

October 11, 2018 Ideas and thoughts were never meant to live in our heads. They are meant to begin, to be birthed, in our heads. But then, after we...

The Creative Farm Girl takes what she is learning right now and gives it a creative twist.

September 27, 2018 dedicated to tiffany m. who asked about it   A few weeks ago I posted a video about a surprise I had found in my front yard. (Ch...

September 20, 2018   Do you have any plants in your life that have disappointed you?   Hey, I’m serious.   When we first moved to our current hou...

September 13 2018 “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”  (Thank you, Brene Brown.) I sure do appreciate m...

From the time I was a small child, I remember receiving a birthday card from a gentleman named Grant Ford. He was a man who sent birthday cards to...

There’s that strange in-between time from summer to fall, when the beach balls haven’t quite turned to pumpkins, and the flip-flops are on the verg...