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As The Butter Churns
http://www.asthebutterchurns.com
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.
- Added on: May 1st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: farmgirl3460
- Listed in: Womens Family Friendly
- Tags: farm teacher american history city girl heritage animals
Recent Posts
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...
October 4th Heads Or Tails?
(Gnatalie, with Abe and Andy together for a rare moment) Everyday when I look out on my pasture I see two beautiful deep red steer, Abe and Andy and then I scan the field for Gnatalie who is inevitably all alone half a field away. I feel like I’ve ...
September 28th Horse Sense
(Sir Edward out standing in his field) Being parsimonious, German, thrifty, poor or whatever you want to call it, I took Sir Edward onto the farm, not because taking a giant 16 and a half hand high ageing thoroughbred made any real financial sense, l...
September 27th Waste Not Want Not
(Christina and Riley saunter past Franklin and Richard) **WARNING - this post contains some graphic pictures) It was another predictable Sunday of laundry, housework and barn cleaning. With the added hope, I’d have time to hop on the treadmill and ...
September 16 The Sweet Life
(A big yawn -Miracle and Sir Edward refuse to sleep in the barn, they're out all night on alert-and apparently not sleeping well) Mike and Donna made their way up to our place with a new bee suit in hand for our newest beekeeper, Nick. “We aren’t...
