Good Morning, I was recently sent these beautiful pearl earrings to review from Classical Pearls Jewelry. My intention was to save them for a Christmas present or birthday present but after trying them on, I do believe I may have to keep them for myself and order another pair for a Christmas present. Classical Pearls Jewelry offers free Worldwide shipping too! I worked as a jewelry department manager for several years at a major store chain and dealt with jewelry daily. I can tell by... Read Full Story

Good Morning, Here are a few answers to a few questions. Do you sell the metal chicken box nest that FarmMan builds? If you can come to the farm and pick them up, yes they are for sell. He has a few of the 2 hole ones and several of the 4 hole ones made. Just email me gacountrygirl75@gmail.com for the info. Can you ship the nest boxes? No, the weight makes it expensive to ship. What are you doing with all those eggs? A whole lot of omelets for one thing. Egg salad sandwiches, scrambled... Read Full Story

Good Morning, If you have inside pets like Lionel I know you understand how they can leave their mark on your flooring. As sweet as Lionel is he can be destructive. Lionel loves to use the carpet around the stairs as his scratching post. I just hate tattling on him but he also loves to run across the hardwood floor in the kitchen and stop fast leaving little scratch marks on the floor. My Mother has laminated flooring in her kitchen and living room. Laminated gives the look of wood, is... Read Full Story

Good Morning, This little pond is the reason our garden produced so many vegetables this year. Here in this part of Georgia we are still in a major drought and it was extremely dry all summer. If not for having that small pond of water and this Gorman-Rupp Self-Priming pump with a Intek Briggs & Stratton motor, the garden would have dried completely up. We bought the pump about 4 years ago at Northern Tool Co. and we haven't had a bit of trouble with it. We irrigated the garden... Read Full Story

Good Morning, I wanted to share with you a few scenes from around the farm this week. Mmmm good. Annie enjoying the last of the (click here)> muscadines . A good place for a head scratching. White Ears decides this is the spot to rest a spell. Happy Chickens! I started letting the chickens out of the pen during the day and they are loving it. I just hope the hawks don't love the chickens. It gives the goats and chicken some mingling time together. Which they all seem to enjoy. We... Read Full Story

America Farmer: The Heart of Our Country Photographs by: Paul Mobley Text: Katrina Fried www.welcomebooks.com/americanfarmer Recently I was sent a copy of American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country . When I opened the package and saw the big, colorful, beautiful book with a farmer holding a rooster on the cover, I knew this was going to be something special. As I turned the pages more breath taking photographs appeared. What I saw was so familiar. I could see my Grandfather. I could... Read Full Story

Good Morning, It is still hot and dry here in middle Georgia. Just the right weather for hay baling. FarmMan was busy all weekend cutting, raking, and baling hay. A bale is made FarmMan and BoDog are tired at the end of the day. But proud of the 35 big bales so far. Have a great day! Read Full Story

Good Morning, Now... just what were you expecting? The fall weather was just right for Lionel's roll in the hay yesterday. Jack and the cows stop their morning grazing to see what is going on. Jack just had to come closer to get a better look. and Betsy had to check it out too. In the meantime, Lionel takes a quick inspection to make sure there isn't a mouse hiding in the hay. No mouse there. Lionel decides to find the perfect spot to take a cat nap in the fall sunshine... Read Full Story

Good Morning, The Persimmons on the farm are good and ripe now. We have a large (click for more info)> Persimmon tree in the back yard. This year despite the drought there are a good many persimmons on the tree. I haven't ever used them in cooking, but I have seen recipes for persimmon pudding before. Click here for recipe>Persimmon Pudding If you have ever bit into a persimmon that was not good and ripe you would surely remember it. When I was around 8 years old I bit into one that... Read Full Story

Good Morning, I cut the last of the (click here>)Okra this week. I fried part of it. Fried Okra: Slice okra. Soak in a bowl of milk. Put about 1/2 cup of cornmeal and 1/4 cup of flour in a Ziploc bag. Add drained okra slices and shake. Have about 2 inches of hot vegetable oil in skillet. Put breaded okra in and let brown good before turning to brown on other side. I also add some sliced onions as the okra browns. Don't over brown. I pickled part of it (just like pickling cucmumbers... Read Full Story