Step through the door of our Big Red Barn and please, feel right at home, kick off your shoes, and stay a while. As you glimpse our life on the farm, it arrives complete with the timely thoughts, creative ideas, scrumptious recipes, joy, and laughter that comes part and parcel with living in a big red barn . We know you'll enjoy your visit and want to return often.

Welcome!

Step through the door of our Big Red Barn...

Refresh...

your eyes as you gaze out the kitchen window, enjoying the sight of the majestic mountainsides and simple elegance of the bald eagles fishing for steelhead in the river's crystal clear flow.

Nourish...

Your sense of gratitude for the sometimes forgotten things which bring such great joy:

simplicity

humor

friendship

the gifts and rhythm of nature

Reflect...

on that which is most meaningful:

-Faith

-Family

-Friends

Enjoy!

Get a nice cup of cocoa, kick off your shoes and get comfy as you enter the doors of our big red barn.

Friday, February 13, 2009

html what?


"Big Bertha" made a mighty fine omlette.....
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You know there is an old country saying that goes like this: "A good fisherman knows what to put on the hook." When my husband and best friend Shep asked me what I thought about starting a blog (realizing full well that I LOVE to write and express myself artistically) he knew that I'd jump all over the opportunity. He also knew that it would, um, "encourage" me to stretch my mind in a direction I have diligently avoided for years: html protocol/editing.

Ugh.

Thus the great space in time between my first two blog posts. Believe me, there is no such thing as a "free" horse....or blog design. :-) Tonight, however, was a breakthrough. Barring unforseen circumstances I should have this show on the road by Monday. It IS Valentine's Day tomorrow, after all!

May your every kiss be a chocolate one :-)

+Jan+

Thursday, February 5, 2009

It's tomorrow ALREADY??

( 0030 hours) If you are still up when this is posted, you should already be in bed! Trust me....I can't believe I am up this late. Does not jive with my mental capacities or physiology. Both are headed downhill and I am headed upstairs.

I have been working on perfecting this blog for about 12 hours give or take. I am NOT a html linguist. Wish I were. Things are slowly progressing. Reminds me of the 2 weeks Shep, Lew and I spent in Greece. When we first arrived, driving off the ferry in Patras, heading south down the Peloponnese Penninsula the signs were all in...Greek! After a week or so, we started understanding the Greek. It was an amazing trip and exploration but we'll save that for another day.

And since it is another day maybe html code will begin to look more like English if I go to bed.

G'night!

Jan

Monday, February 2, 2009

Welcome to our home!


Welcome!! We're glad you're here! As you enter our door you might be wondering why anyone in their right mind would want to live in a barn or perhaps what kind of people would willingly and happily choose such accomodations. Maybe you're interested in what the lifestyle of barn dwellers is like.


Come by frequently and you'll discover just that! From horses helping themselves through the front door looking for Jan to Shep doing "blazing saddles" in the snow on his ATV, from bees in the garden to "chicken tv", you'll undoubtedly find exactly what you are looking for in country livin' and down home fun right here in our big red barn.


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