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As The Butter Churns
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The story of a city girl from Los Angeles who quits her job packs her bags and moves her family to a rural farm in Washington to start Fort Flashback, an American History camp for kids. Things don't go exactly as planned. Tune to find out if Denise ever gets funding, catches the oxen as they run down the road. Or if ten-year-old Henry forgets to wear shoes to school Again. Will Grandpa Horn leave everything to play jazz on the streets of Paris.
Recent Posts
November 29th Forever In Our Hearts
(Richard and Franklin - real Poofftas) Thanksgiving took on a myriad of permutations this year. At first, Awesomez thought she might come up to join Nick, and Mike and Donna had considered joining us. Of course we expected Mike and then there was rum...
November 12th With A Huff And A Puff
(Dashingly handsome Cluck-Cluck and not so demure Silence Dogood snuggle up on a cold wet night - on top of the rabbit hutch- can we expect turkens?) It rained and rained and rained torrential frightening flood kind of rain and the wind howled and bl...
November 8th Git Along Little Dogies
(a beaver sighting across the pasture and after closer investigation I located a dam! Not at the pond - but in our creek) When we woke up on Sunday morning, Henry couldn’t see outside. “It’s like a carwash out there.” Not our usual. Sure Wash...
November 4th Little Runaway
(fall slips into winter on highway 9) After a summer of long languid dusty dry evenings, it’s time to pay the piper. We wake up in the dark; we drive home in the dark and the rain. Nick is no longer confused as to why vampires are said to exist pea...
October 23rd Sweet Smell of Success
(Mosquito Lake Road all dressed up) Irish is a life-size Winnie the Pooh only entirely too smart. Somehow he managed to figure out how to turn the spigot on the giant honey container we kept in the kitchen. Honey oozed everywhere. I only discovered i...
October 21st Back To The Future
(My mother, after being 89lbs and in a wheelchair - fought her way back to go on a three-week safari) Dear Mom, I’ve been feeling lost and alone lately and my friend, Sherry, from work suggested I write you a letter because I miss you so much. I wa...

