Lea was born the morning of May 22, 2011. Louise, one of my farmhand photographers, started training her little gray filly that very day. Aside from an unusual nervousness about her feet, Lea was easy to train. First a bit, then a saddle, and eventually she let Louise rest across her back.
Recently, Louise received a call from her friends who board Lea to say they’d …
My brother and his wife came to visit recently. We’re still sorting through our parents’ treasures, so Scott delivered some odds and ends from our childhood home—a few church books, high school yearbooks, my childhood merit badge badalo sash (now you know why I’m such a fan of merit badges), AND my mother’s …
Here they are … the promised photos of the fantastic, amazing, gorgeous glampers we had the honor of “meeting” in person on our recent glamping trip to South Dakota! Fab-u-lous.
Here’s Shery Jesperson, our Ranch Farmgirl Blogger’s, glamper.
It’s insane what wildfires do, even scarier what wildfire storms can do. While driving through a canyon outside of Missoula, Montana, we passed by an area that looked like it was recently scorched (or so we thought). Well, a couple of questions to our camper neighbors later and we learned that the fire occurred in the year 2000. They informed us that a wildfire “storm” is a fire with so much fuel that the heat from the fire sterilizes the ground and the vegetation doesn’t bounce back for years.
Here’s a photo of the strange red haze the fires in Wyoming were casting. Eerie.
This is it, my glorious glampin’ darlin’s! Our last giveaway of my new book, Glamping with MaryJane.
We all know how things can go … umm … not-exactly-as-planned when you’re on the road. Flat tires, problematic potty situations, the wrong color nail polish. Stuff happens!
For instance … let’s say you’re on the road for 12 days (living large in your tricked-out Airstream) and your
ORIGINALLY POSTED JULY 26, 2012
Up until midnight Sept. 3, we tossed your names (326 to be exact) into my hat (actually Mia’s wheelbarrow) for a mighty good glamporific giveaway …
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
