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Butterfly Hollow Farm ____ The Path Leading Us Here ____ How The Farm Got Its Name ____ Restoring the Old Farmhouse ____ Where The Beefalo Roam ____ Saddle Up The Horses ____ Saving Wilderness and Farm Land ____ Farm Journals ____ Sharing The Farm ____ Guest Book ____ Site Map ____ |
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(March) It's been so nice hearing from family and friends during the last couple months. A sincere Thank you for the cards and warm thoughts that you shared when you heard about our dog passing away. It was a much harder experience than I ever imagined it would be. He was deeply woven into my life for 13 years and was one of the cores in Sharon's and my relationship. The sorrow has faded some now and some beautiful daffodils are blooming where we laid him to rest on the hill behind our farmhouse. The ol' farm just isn't the same without him though..... I've learned how life works in cycles and I knew that it would be just a matter of time before a new life would be entering our world again. I half way expected a puppy to show up somewhere, or for Sharon to get pregnant or something.... but how God works in strange ways. A little more than a month ago now we became the foster parents to a newborn calf that had lost his Mom during delivery. There are about 300 or so Beefalo cows that roam some of our farm in a cooperative effort with neighbors. When I found the cow that died I could tell that she was trying to give birth, but decided that the calf must have died inside her, which is usually the case. Later that day I was taking a hike around the property and heard this funny sound coming from some brush. I bent down on my knees, parted some twigs and thorns and touched the pink wet nose of a gray and white Beefalo calf we now call Curly. We're bottle feeding him twice a day. He follows us on our daily walks around the ridges. It's quite the picture. We're still working on the renovation of the 100+ year old farmhouse. I can stand back now and look at this piece of history and can't believe how it has come back to life before our eyes. It just took imagination, patience, sweat, and will. Unfortunately we don't keep all these ingredients in balance at all times, so it's a constant struggle to remind ourselves that it is getting done and to enjoy the moment at hand.
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Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563