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A Gift For You

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We are so grateful to you, our blog readers, and thoroughly enjoy your comments and insights.  We love sharing life on our small family farm, and want to thank you for all your support throughout the year.  So here is our holiday gift to you ~ free standard shipping on our calendars, tee shirts and onsies in our Etsy shop.  Just enter the promo code HOLIDAYTREAT in the comment section, and we will refund the shipping charge on your order of calendars, tee shirts and onsies.

An additional surprise awaits you in our Gift Shop!  Enter the promo code HOLIDAYTREAT at check-out and receive free shipping on your order of calendars, tees and mugs. 
Enjoy a little slice of life on our fifth-generation family farm, through our products celebrating our farm animals’ personalities!  Happy Holidays from the Shepherdess/s!

(free standard shipping offer expires on Sunday, December 16th at midnight)

Memorial Day

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HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
excerpted from
General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land.

We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders.

Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from hishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.

Found Finery

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The family thought I was crazy to keep this old piece of barbed wire that one of the sheep somehow found and got twisted up in (had to be cut out of her wool).  That… some pine and red berries from the fence line… add a couple pieces of pretty green baler twine…
I think it is just about perfect for a shepherd’s front door.
(edited to add:  please note – no sheep were harmed in the making of this wreath)