Local Farm Girl

I warned of the potential for political rants on this blog. If you don't like those, you don't have to read it, unless you want to. This is going to be one of those rants, and then I will get back onto the farm.
Those of you who came to this page from Facebook or Twitter, as I assume most readers will, may have noticed me making argumentative responses onto Tea Party links and posts and whatnot. A Confession: I am fascinated by politics, kind of oddly curious...

It has been two and a half years since I have used this blog. I haven't gone back to read what I wrote in December of 2012. I'll let you know if I do.
I have decided to try and resurrect this blog. I won't be starting out again with the intensity I had before, but I do hope if I start writing again, I will find the enthusiasm I had at that time. Some unexpected obstacles came in my way, and in the...

So, it would seem that I've skipped another month - November. It wasn't really my best month, anyway. It started out with a pretty significant health scare for me. I was hospitalized for 4 days with hypertension. And right after I got out of the hospital...

I started keeping a diary in the 4th grade - at the age my oldest daughter is now.  It had Snoopy and Woodstock on the cover, and a little lock with a code, which probably never prevented my sister from reading it. If I were to somehow locate the...