I love the sounds of wild Geese. They evoke deep and intensely emotional memories for me. Many many years ago (1978, I think) I saw on our old black and white TV, a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie with Richard Harris, called called The Snow Goose. I was home sick from High School and my mother was at work. I was so grateful that I got to watch it all by myself, because it was so poignant that I cried for an hour after it was over. And it was the kind of poignant, that you just don’t want to share with anybody else or have it interrupted. Or have someone saying you’re being silly for crying over a movie. That movie had a very profound effect on me, in my core of who I was inside and the kind of person I wanted to be. I was so painfully inspired by Richard Harris’s character that it helped shape my character and how I have chosen to live my life. We didn’t have wild geese in Arizona, where I grew up, but when I moved to other places and got to see them migrate, it touched my heart in the same place that the movie had touched me. One day I was in Arcata, California and I went into a little café to grab some breakfast before I went crabbing, and the cafe had wonderful paintings on the wall from local artists that were selling them. One painting caught my eye and left me speechless and spellbound. I could hear the geese and smell the salt air and my heart began to ache in a very powerful way. It was a painting of a V-shaped flock of geese flying over a marshy area. But one of the spots in the V formation was empty. At that time I didn’t know why I started crying, but I couldn’t take my eyes off that painting and I couldn’t stop the tears. I am tearing up just thinking about it. About a month later, wildlife biologist told me that wild geese mate for life. When you see them flying with a blank spot in the formation it means that one has died, just like when our military jets fly in the missing man formation. I had to quickly excuse myself and rush to my car for another long cry. No one had ever told that me about geese before, but I think that I knew it in my spirit and that was why the painting made feel that lonesome mourning kind of feeling that you can’t help but start crying. I immediately went back to the cafe to see if I could make payments on the painting, but someone else had already bought it. Thirty years have passed and I still think about that painting when I hear the wild geese. I have now been a widow for 20 years and I truly understand that painting even more deeply than when I first saw it. Sometimes when you have truly found and lost your soul mate, no one else can take their place. Whenever I hear the sounds of a flock of geese, I always look up and I think about the painting and about my husband and about the movie the Snow Goose and after all these years I still cry. But I wouldn’t have any other way. It is something deeply personal and profound, like poetry and the calls of the geese encouraging each other, touches me in ways that nothing else can. I am grateful for that touch and I am even grateful for the lonely pain that it evokes in my heart. I know where my husband is and I know that soon I will hear the trumpet calling me home. That is worth the wait. God comforts all who mourn.
You reminded me of one of my favorite poems, Wild Geese by Mary Oliver: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Your gothic greenhouse is starting to give off cathedral vibes…a place where there is going to be so much new life. The vision is so beautiful, it’s almost sacred. I can picture the lights on and the colors of the stained glass glowing. I can’t wait to see it all put together and full of life and light!
@@gardengirl50t30 Jess used that term to describe it… it makes me think of Gothic cathedrals. Look up Romanesque vs Gothic cathedrals…sorry, Art History nerd here. 😊
When either listening or watching, you always make me feel like we've been longtime friends. In a very hard season of my life (blessed, but hard), this always brings me peace. Thank you for that.
Can't wait to hear the peepers again in a few months. I love catching the sound of them in the background of your vlogs. Maybe all the sounds aren't new anymore but you can call them the soundtrack of your farm.
I love (and really miss) the peeper frogs. We used to call them “ hey baby “ frogs because at night when they are loud it sounds like they are singing hey baby.
I love being out a dusk. The in-beween times are so magical. hearing geese, ducks, and peepers is such a spring feel for me. Thank you. We have had an unseasonably warm winter I keep forgetting it is January
I had a little taste of homesteading. I had a beautiful flock of geese. I had to take care of family, and I no longer have my geese. I miss them so much. The whole family is working together to get our farm with geese again.
Just wanna say I love you Jess. You have affected my life in ways you’ll never know, but every night I fall asleep to your videos praying for gardens, goats and chickens. Thank you for that ❤
The sound of birds in the spring is music for the soul ❤I am working towards having that excess so I can share with family and friends!! Hope Miah feels better soon 🙏
The tears I just cried thinking about your wild geese and how amazing it will be when I get to hear mine, Lord thank you for this life we get to chose🌿💛
another tip if you have a cool house is to use the instant pot on yoghurt setting overnight, or even your bread maker to keep stuff warm and fermenting :)
Jess I just got my first dairy goats. I know you have cows but I still watch your stuff to learn. Thank you for inspiring us to bring a dairy animal home to the farm ❤
I also love the sound of the geese, but here, they are ON the buildings! I was at the doctors, and they were wandering around the roofs of the buildings, lol.
I live in northern Illinois in a farm/Beach town. We have a beautiful collection of wildlife here. We get wild geese in the spring/summer/fall. It is a magical should when they fly overhead. Im with you Jess.
Wild geese fly over my house quite regularly, as there’s a few ponds within a couple miles. We have both Canada and grey lag geese. It’s nice to watch the bigger groups, all flying in formation. I hope Miah is ok and heals quickly. X
At least your hens are still laying and you haven't gotten the tainted feed. 🤞 My poodle did the same thing on our garden fence. They are super dramatic. Whooping cranes came over our place in Colorado once every year and it was such a marker for us. You could hear them coming for miles it sounded like.
It's still the frozen tundra where I live with Temps close to zero F and wind chill well below that. I am patiently awaiting my seed start dates but that's still months away. Growing basil rooted from my garden last year and sprouting greens is all I can do. My winter fortitude is waxing thin. I try to live vicariously through your videos.
Thanks Jessica, for doing the podcast with Jay. I've been your fan follower almost from the beginning. I'm glad to hear that you will be collaborating on events there in Batesburg with Jay. I look forward to listening to his first 10 episodes & following his progress here on TH-cam. Lord willing, my travel itinerary will include Batesburg, SC one day soon. You are all in my prayers on a regular basis. May the Lord continue to heal your body & help Jeremiah feel better soon as well. You are an encouragement & a genuine blessing. ❤️
I'm thinking that the milk crate nesting boxes spur competition as well as bonding. Thinking it's a genius idea 💡 praying for Miah as well as the rest of y'all ❤️
It's been a lot like spring here too, but not quite. I'm at the point where I don't sell my food. I keep it in a root cellar- something I highly recommend you build if you don't have one. People will tell you that southerners don't need root cellars, but I live in a subtropical climate and I LOVE mine. It's fantastic storage.
I love in a townhouse next to a busy highway, and I am waiting patiently (trying to at least) for the day I walk out side and just hear the sound of wide open spaces. I am thankful for what I have, but dreaming is nice.
I love hearing your frogs. It’s -15F here in Minnesota tonight. We won’t be hearing any frogs or crickets for a long time. We do have tons of geese in town though.
We are in South Central Il and the wild geese have been flying North over us for the last 3 weeks! I always look forward to this time of year. We have high temps in the low 20's here. They must know something we don't! :) They were landing in the fields around our home today, coming in by the hundreds. Some are still here overnight. We can hear them. They will leave tomorrow with another flock coming in in a few days. Love watching them. They are a LOT bigger than people think! Praying for Miah to feel much better quickly.
I totally understand the emotion of hearing the geese. The first thing I heard on our new property were the spring peepers. They bring me joy every year reminding me how happy we were to finally find our place. :)
I have one of those mats for my seeds, they work very well. I see there are other uses too it seems. Bread has always been my nemesis... thanks. Waxing lyrical is something we all do Jess, most of it comes to nothing 😉
I am stuck at home on oxygen and every time I hear geese or ducks or cranes go over I am out on my front porch looking up. I am not just looking up for birds I also look up for airplanes, helicopters and the moon. Recently there was a grey crowned rosy finch from western Canada found in new Brunswick. I just added that in for the bird watcher people. I would give just about anything to hear the coyotes, or a loon, the crickets at night.....or the frogs....you just don't hear that in the city. You don't see the stars at night like you should....If you live in the country and enjoy all of this....you are truly blessed.
I love how you share your special moments with the rest of us. We have those moments as well In moving to a new location and getting chickens and garden set up and the first harvest and the first eggs are so exciting. I shared it online and got questions within an hour “are you selling eggs” and my comment was family first. Because that’s really why I have chickens and a garden is to help provide quality foods for my family. God bless you and your until next time
Ahh..I was just hoping to find you up this morning while I tend to lots of chores! You are always so inspiring and my most favorite YT to listen & watch, hands down! Just watched your Devotional again last night while Editing Art of the Cowgirl Photos!!! Love you Jess & your sharing heart! Have a Blessed Day and week!
I remember very similar feelings when we first stayed at our new house for the first time. Same scenario. Run down, over grown and tons of work to do but I still noticed the most simple things and they brought me so much joy!
I'm such a fan of kombucha too! Just a small tip regarding fermentation - it is best to heat the fermentation jar from sides rather than the bottom because heating it from the bottom will boost yeast and so the kombucha might develop an unfavourable balance of yeast and bacteria. I love your videos, your family and your farm. All the best ❤️
I love when the ducks and geese come back in the spring. We have a bit to wait before that happens for us. Today it is warm we wre at fifty degrees which I think is the high, but we will be back below freezing in a day or two. My fingers are itching to plant some seeds but it is way tobearly for that. I can daydream watching your farm and all the life it holds.
Dear Jess, I've sorely needed your blessing this week. I'm so not into seed starting (maybe next year) so I've been avoiding the seed haul videos. Today I clicked on while getting my brain ready to go to work, and you blessed me until next time. January has been a season of major expenses ($10K for plumbing and $2K already to the lawyer) due to a sewer backup and the guardian of my twins with autism died, leaving the guardianship empty. I've been working so hard to get prepared for them to join me in my home, and dealing with the evil stepmother who is filling their hearts with hate. If you think of praying for Josh and Joe to know where they experience love, and to be strong since their father died, I'd appreciate it. It's so hard to stay positive and upbeat when you are being lied about. God knows I want what is best for my sons - and if Josh has any say in it, it will include a greenhouse. Joe wants to heft the canner. It's a good system - and they love growing and preserving food. Until next time, sending blessings of health and wholeness for your family.
I'm so relieved to hear you keep your house cooler in the winter which is healthier. Sometimes you see You Tube families with short sleeves and shorts and heating their house to 74 degrees in the winter- Throwing on a sweater and a quilt on the couch with some snuggly slippers can save ALOT of money and better for environment.
My husband and I had lived in the city. We moved to a country town. The first morning I got up made coffee and could smell the wet leaves. I’m still reminded
Hi Jess, 🙏 For Miah. Just started my Tomato and pepper seeds yesterday. I actually had to check and see if any sprouted this morning 😂🤪 Love your VLOG be well ❤
I can really appreciate the beautiful eggs!🥰 With our having a farm again being a possibility, I have been looking into some different chickens for beautiful eggs. Copper Maran’s and golden sebright Bantams are on my list for chickens to have.🥰
I've lived in a suburb for a decade and a half and my house/back yard/man-made pond is the fav for wild geese. I thought the sound was coming from my window at first lol. I just realized as much poop as they've left in my backyard over the years *if* I could actually farm that land it might be amazing! Never even thought of that Jess. Thanks. ✨
We moved to Idaho a couple years ago and our home is near a lake reserve. I agree with you that the sound of wild geese “chatting” as they fly over is SUCH a lovely sound (along with the squeaky wing sounds of the ducks wings) . I’m becoming a real lover of the quail that have chosen to live and have their babies across the street at our neighbors too!
You made me smile when you talked about walking down the drive way at sunset. We’re 400” off the one lane farm road, our daughter & her hubby grabbed the knoll at the top of the property so they’re 1000’ off the road. Lately daughter, her son & my sweet hubby talk conspiracy stories, big foot, missing 411 & nephelim. They get quite loud and funny. We’re in the outer limits of our 800+ people town and it’s really dark. I go check on my chick babies at when it gets dark. I have never given it a second thought. Then she called, positive something was in the tree line on the back of the property. I’ve traded my little flashlight for a TORCH. 🙈 I can’t wait until the time change. In central Ky we have sunlight until 9:30 at night. I. Love. It. Blessings, debby
Yes, felt like Spring two days ago, but now we’re awaiting freezing rain and ice. Then it’s headed your direction ugh brrr… this Arkansan doesn’t like cold lol. Have a great day, dear one 😘
I'd be all ears to listen to you teach about Kombucha! I love drinking it, store bought...would totally be interested in how to make my own. Blessings!....
The subtle hints of coming Spring while it is still cold is so uplifting. Spring Peepers are one, and yesterday I heard my first Red Wing Blackbird of the year!.
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I love the sounds of wild Geese. They evoke deep and intensely emotional memories for me.
Many many years ago (1978, I think) I saw on our old black and white TV, a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie with Richard Harris, called called The Snow Goose. I was home sick from High School and my mother was at work. I was so grateful that I got to watch it all by myself, because it was so poignant that I cried for an hour after it was over. And it was the kind of poignant, that you just don’t want to share with anybody else or have it interrupted. Or have someone saying you’re being silly for crying over a movie. That movie had a very profound effect on me, in my core of who I was inside and the kind of person I wanted to be. I was so painfully inspired by Richard Harris’s character that it helped shape my character and how I have chosen to live my life.
We didn’t have wild geese in Arizona, where I grew up, but when I moved to other places and got to see them migrate, it touched my heart in the same place that the movie had touched me.
One day I was in Arcata, California and I went into a little café to grab some breakfast before I went crabbing, and the cafe had wonderful paintings on the wall from local artists that were selling them. One painting caught my eye and left me speechless and spellbound. I could hear the geese and smell the salt air and my heart began to ache in a very powerful way. It was a painting of a V-shaped flock of geese flying over a marshy area. But one of the spots in the V formation was empty. At that time I didn’t know why I started crying, but I couldn’t take my eyes off that painting and I couldn’t stop the tears. I am tearing up just thinking about it. About a month later, wildlife biologist told me that wild geese mate for life. When you see them flying with a blank spot in the formation it means that one has died, just like when our military jets fly in the missing man formation. I had to quickly excuse myself and rush to my car for another long cry. No one had ever told that me about geese before, but I think that I knew it in my spirit and that was why the painting made feel that lonesome mourning kind of feeling that you can’t help but start crying. I immediately went back to the cafe to see if I could make payments on the painting, but someone else had already bought it. Thirty years have passed and I still think about that painting when I hear the wild geese. I have now been a widow for 20 years and I truly understand that painting even more deeply than when I first saw it. Sometimes when you have truly found and lost your soul mate, no one else can take their place. Whenever I hear the sounds of a flock of geese, I always look up and I think about the painting and about my husband and about the movie the Snow Goose and after all these years I still cry. But I wouldn’t have any other way. It is something deeply personal and profound, like poetry and the calls of the geese encouraging each other, touches me in ways that nothing else can. I am grateful for that touch and I am even grateful for the lonely pain that it evokes in my heart.
I know where my husband is and I know that soon I will hear the trumpet calling me home. That is worth the wait. God comforts all who mourn.
That was really beautiful. Thank you for sharing that comment. ❤
You reminded me of one of my favorite poems, Wild Geese by Mary Oliver:
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
I have this printed. It’s one of my most favorites
@@RootsandRefugeFarm ❤
Prayers for Miah that he is soon back in tip top health again.
I can feel that electric fence every time it clicks 😂😂😂 childhood memories 😂😂
Your gothic greenhouse is starting to give off cathedral vibes…a place where there is going to be so much new life. The vision is so beautiful, it’s almost sacred. I can picture the lights on and the colors of the stained glass glowing. I can’t wait to see it all put together and full of life and light!
Gothic? 😳😳
@@gardengirl50t30 Jess used that term to describe it… it makes me think of Gothic cathedrals. Look up Romanesque vs Gothic cathedrals…sorry, Art History nerd here. 😊
@@Joyfulfarmer I know what Gothic means. I didn't know that's what she was trying to do.
@@gardengirl50t30 not sure how “cathedral” she was wanting it, but it sure speaks it to me. It’s beautiful, either way!
You have a way with words!
Prayers for Miah, may he feel better quickly 🙏🙏🙏🥰
I love that you left Lulu's learning moment. Maybe it's mean of me, but it was a good giggle. Farm dogs have a steep learning curve!
Your poodle is beautiful!! I have spring fever! I'm 71 and only able to do container gardening now. I love your show. So inspiring and educational !
I’m almost 69 and it’s the same for me.
You and sweet Miah are such a team. You remind me to appreciate the love and support in my life. Thank you so much.
The sound of geese are wonderful indeed. I agree.
Prayers for fast healing Miah. Blessings to everyone.
💚 Love the drizzly, late January day, and the "sheared" poodle, frolicking so happily on the farm! Will you please share your Gluten-free Sourdough? 💚
Thank you for the heating mat tip for the fermentation in the kitchen! Brilliant.
Here in MI I wait for the frogs to freeze under 3 times before Spring is here. We’re a ways off. Loved your video.
When either listening or watching, you always make me feel like we've been longtime friends. In a very hard season of my life (blessed, but hard), this always brings me peace. Thank you for that.
Good afternoon ! Love the sweatshirt…. God Bless!
I can't wait for warm weather. I'm ready to shake off the rust and get back to gardening!😊
Can't wait to hear the peepers again in a few months. I love catching the sound of them in the background of your vlogs. Maybe all the sounds aren't new anymore but you can call them the soundtrack of your farm.
I love (and really miss) the peeper frogs. We used to call them “ hey baby “ frogs because at night when they are loud it sounds like they are singing hey baby.
I love being out a dusk. The in-beween times are so magical. hearing geese, ducks, and peepers is such a spring feel for me. Thank you. We have had an unseasonably warm winter I keep forgetting it is January
Spring is coming!😊
I had a little taste of homesteading. I had a beautiful flock of geese. I had to take care of family, and I no longer have my geese. I miss them so much. The whole family is working together to get our farm with geese again.
I love a wonderful dreary evening, it’s so peaceful!
Just wanna say I love you Jess. You have affected my life in ways you’ll never know, but every night I fall asleep to your videos praying for gardens, goats and chickens. Thank you for that ❤
God Bless you, and your family!
The sound of birds in the spring is music for the soul ❤I am working towards having that excess so I can share with family and friends!! Hope Miah feels better soon 🙏
The tears I just cried thinking about your wild geese and how amazing it will be when I get to hear mine, Lord thank you for this life we get to chose🌿💛
One of my favorite songs my mom's elementary school choir was ,"something told the wild geese"
I bet that new haircut made lulu’s zap register! Her longer curly hair was probably a really good buffer!
another tip if you have a cool house is to use the instant pot on yoghurt setting overnight, or even your bread maker to keep stuff warm and fermenting :)
Jess I just got my first dairy goats. I know you have cows but I still watch your stuff to learn. Thank you for inspiring us to bring a dairy animal home to the farm ❤
Her older videos with her goats are very helpful too if you haven’t watched them 😁
@@Alexis_9339 I’ll check them out thank you Alexis!
The peeper frogs around my pond (in Mississippi) have been so loud the past few days and I LOVE IT!
love that color eggs so so Pretty
I also love the sound of the geese, but here, they are ON the buildings! I was at the doctors, and they were wandering around the roofs of the buildings, lol.
What a blessing to have alot of room for long private walks with nature ♡
So enjoy your walks and talks
Peepers’ singing is for me like wild geese honking is for you. ❤
I live in northern Illinois in a farm/Beach town. We have a beautiful collection of wildlife here. We get wild geese in the spring/summer/fall. It is a magical should when they fly overhead. Im with you Jess.
Tell me more about the gluten free sourdough please! GF bread is challenging!
Wild geese fly over my house quite regularly, as there’s a few ponds within a couple miles. We have both Canada and grey lag geese. It’s nice to watch the bigger groups, all flying in formation. I hope Miah is ok and heals quickly. X
Every time I have something heavy on my mind or heart God sends me geese. I love to hear them before they fly into sight. God is so good.
I love the “ wild geese” moments too!
At least your hens are still laying and you haven't gotten the tainted feed. 🤞
My poodle did the same thing on our garden fence. They are super dramatic.
Whooping cranes came over our place in Colorado once every year and it was such a marker for us. You could hear them coming for miles it sounded like.
Love your sweatshirt.
Send those geese up to Canada. It's a sign of Spring! 😃😍
We have a golf course right next to us and I love to hear the geese when they are roosting for the night over there. Such a peaceful sound.
Yay for the chandelier!! And yay for the shelves going in!! Sweet Miah Lemons for the patient 🍋🍯☕️🫖☕️🌻💛
My goodness! The views, the sounds! ❤❤
It's still the frozen tundra where I live with Temps close to zero F and wind chill well below that. I am patiently awaiting my seed start dates but that's still months away. Growing basil rooted from my garden last year and sprouting greens is all I can do. My winter fortitude is waxing thin. I try to live vicariously through your videos.
Thanks Jessica, for doing the podcast with Jay. I've been your fan follower almost from the beginning. I'm glad to hear that you will be collaborating on events there in Batesburg with Jay. I look forward to listening to his first 10 episodes & following his progress here on TH-cam.
Lord willing, my travel itinerary will include Batesburg, SC one day soon. You are all in my prayers on a regular basis. May the Lord continue to heal your body & help Jeremiah feel better soon as well. You are an encouragement & a genuine blessing. ❤️
I'm thinking that the milk crate nesting boxes spur competition as well as bonding. Thinking it's a genius idea 💡 praying for Miah as well as the rest of y'all ❤️
It's been a lot like spring here too, but not quite. I'm at the point where I don't sell my food. I keep it in a root cellar- something I highly recommend you build if you don't have one. People will tell you that southerners don't need root cellars, but I live in a subtropical climate and I LOVE mine. It's fantastic storage.
Watching this makes me so excited to start my raised bed gardens this year ☺️☺️
I’m praying for Miah, to get well quickly. Y’alls farm is so lovely at dusk. Thank you Jess for sharing. ❤
prayers for Miah to feel better
Hi Jess. I pray for your husband's quick recovery. You guys make a perfect team, Couple. I bless you too.
Getting spring fever here in zone 5b🇨🇦!
I love in a townhouse next to a busy highway, and I am waiting patiently (trying to at least) for the day I walk out side and just hear the sound of wide open spaces. I am thankful for what I have, but dreaming is nice.
I love hearing your frogs. It’s -15F here in Minnesota tonight. We won’t be hearing any frogs or crickets for a long time. We do have tons of geese in town though.
Praying Miah gets feeling well very soon ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Morning Jess!❤️
We are in South Central Il and the wild geese have been flying North over us for the last 3 weeks! I always look forward to this time of year. We have high temps in the low 20's here. They must know something we don't! :) They were landing in the fields around our home today, coming in by the hundreds. Some are still here overnight. We can hear them. They will leave tomorrow with another flock coming in in a few days. Love watching them. They are a LOT bigger than people think!
Praying for Miah to feel much better quickly.
Hey, Jess! Started some strawberry and leek seeds this morning!
Great content!
I need an egg skelter! I never knew this was a thing, I’ve been just putting them on the counter for years! Ty so much for sharing all that you do!
Thank you for this lovely episode
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I totally understand the emotion of hearing the geese. The first thing I heard on our new property were the spring peepers. They bring me joy every year reminding me how happy we were to finally find our place. :)
I have one of those mats for my seeds, they work very well. I see there are other uses too it seems. Bread has always been my nemesis... thanks. Waxing lyrical is something we all do Jess, most of it comes to nothing 😉
I am stuck at home on oxygen and every time I hear geese or ducks or cranes go over I am out on my front porch looking up. I am not just looking up for birds I also look up for airplanes, helicopters and the moon. Recently there was a grey crowned rosy finch from western Canada found in new Brunswick. I just added that in for the bird watcher people. I would give just about anything to hear the coyotes, or a loon, the crickets at night.....or the frogs....you just don't hear that in the city. You don't see the stars at night like you should....If you live in the country and enjoy all of this....you are truly blessed.
I love how you share your special moments with the rest of us. We have those moments as well In moving to a new location and getting chickens and garden set up and the first harvest and the first eggs are so exciting. I shared it online and got questions within an hour “are you selling eggs” and my comment was family first. Because that’s really why I have chickens and a garden is to help provide quality foods for my family. God bless you and your until next time
Thank you
Healing thoughts and prayers for Miah.
Ahh..I was just hoping to find you up this morning while I tend to lots of chores! You are always so inspiring and my most favorite YT to listen & watch, hands down! Just watched your Devotional again last night while Editing Art of the Cowgirl Photos!!! Love you Jess & your sharing heart! Have a Blessed Day and week!
Me, I have all brown egg layers. We love the dark eggs.
Thank you for taking us along for your driveway walk.
I remember very similar feelings when we first stayed at our new house for the first time. Same scenario. Run down, over grown and tons of work to do but I still noticed the most simple things and they brought me so much joy!
I'm such a fan of kombucha too! Just a small tip regarding fermentation - it is best to heat the fermentation jar from sides rather than the bottom because heating it from the bottom will boost yeast and so the kombucha might develop an unfavourable balance of yeast and bacteria.
I love your videos, your family and your farm. All the best ❤️
Thank you for the evening stroll around your beautiful farm.
I love when the ducks and geese come back in the spring. We have a bit to wait before that happens for us. Today it is warm we wre at fifty degrees which I think is the high, but we will be back below freezing in a day or two. My fingers are itching to plant some seeds but it is way tobearly for that. I can daydream watching your farm and all the life it holds.
Dear Jess, I've sorely needed your blessing this week. I'm so not into seed starting (maybe next year) so I've been avoiding the seed haul videos. Today I clicked on while getting my brain ready to go to work, and you blessed me until next time. January has been a season of major expenses ($10K for plumbing and $2K already to the lawyer) due to a sewer backup and the guardian of my twins with autism died, leaving the guardianship empty. I've been working so hard to get prepared for them to join me in my home, and dealing with the evil stepmother who is filling their hearts with hate. If you think of praying for Josh and Joe to know where they experience love, and to be strong since their father died, I'd appreciate it. It's so hard to stay positive and upbeat when you are being lied about. God knows I want what is best for my sons - and if Josh has any say in it, it will include a greenhouse. Joe wants to heft the canner. It's a good system - and they love growing and preserving food. Until next time, sending blessings of health and wholeness for your family.
I absolutely love you & your channel 🦋🤗 Love and blessings from Kentucky 🙌🏻🦋🙌🏻
I'm so relieved to hear you keep your house cooler in the winter which is healthier. Sometimes you see You Tube families with short sleeves and shorts and heating their house to 74 degrees in the winter- Throwing on a sweater and a quilt on the couch with some snuggly slippers can save ALOT of money and better for environment.
My husband and I had lived in the city. We moved to a country town. The first morning I got up made coffee and could smell the wet leaves. I’m still reminded
Hi Jess,
🙏 For Miah. Just started my Tomato and pepper seeds yesterday. I actually had to check and see if any sprouted this morning 😂🤪
Love your VLOG be well ❤
God bless you Jeff and your family❤❤❤
Oops, Jessica
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Praying for a speed recovery for miah.
I can really appreciate the beautiful eggs!🥰 With our having a farm again being a possibility, I have been looking into some different chickens for beautiful eggs. Copper Maran’s and golden sebright Bantams are on my list for chickens to have.🥰
Love love love poodles❤❤❤!🎉
I've lived in a suburb for a decade and a half and my house/back yard/man-made pond is the fav for wild geese. I thought the sound was coming from my window at first lol. I just realized as much poop as they've left in my backyard over the years *if* I could actually farm that land it might be amazing! Never even thought of that Jess. Thanks. ✨
You give such good advice! Thanks!
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
I gotv2 of the greenstalk planters on sale. Yay
Love and prayers for the upcoming weather but mostly the the busyness of spring ❤
I want some McMurry FBC Marans! Those eggs are glorious.
We moved to Idaho a couple years ago and our home is near a lake reserve. I agree with you that the sound of wild geese “chatting” as they fly over is SUCH a lovely sound (along with the squeaky wing sounds of the ducks wings) . I’m becoming a real lover of the quail that have chosen to live and have their babies across the street at our neighbors too!
You made me smile when you talked about walking down the drive way at sunset. We’re 400” off the one lane farm road, our daughter & her hubby grabbed the knoll at the top of the property so they’re 1000’ off the road. Lately daughter, her son & my sweet hubby talk conspiracy stories, big foot, missing 411 & nephelim. They get quite loud and funny. We’re in the outer limits of our 800+ people town and it’s really dark. I go check on my chick babies at when it gets dark. I have never given it a second thought. Then she called, positive something was in the tree line on the back of the property. I’ve traded my little flashlight for a TORCH. 🙈 I can’t wait until the time change. In central Ky we have sunlight until 9:30 at night. I. Love. It.
Blessings, debby
Yes, felt like Spring two days ago, but now we’re awaiting freezing rain and ice. Then it’s headed your direction ugh brrr… this Arkansan doesn’t like cold lol. Have a great day, dear one 😘
I'd be all ears to listen to you teach about Kombucha! I love drinking it, store bought...would totally be interested in how to make my own. Blessings!....
The subtle hints of coming Spring while it is still cold is so uplifting. Spring Peepers are one, and yesterday I heard my first Red Wing Blackbird of the year!.