Old friends, not friends that are old, just friends we’ve had for a really long time are a treasure. Such a friend and her husband visited Glory Farm. One of her first words to Her Loving Spouse was, “Be good, or we’ll end up in the blog.” Oh, don’t worry I said, I never use real names, real pictures for sure, but not real names. I thought to myself, I haven’t seen you in 15 years of course you’ll end up in the blog!
They’d come to stay for a few days and had been adequately instructed to not wear white, warned that the bedroom was upstairs and the bathroom was down stairs, but the view was terrific. The Teen gave the house tour and My Friend, my sophisticated, beautiful, feminine friend was impressed with the large mounted buck that hangs in the library, a testament to My Loving Spouse’s hunting prowess. My Friend has been married to a hunter, no, an avid hunter for 29 years and is far ahead of me in the education and understanding of all things hunting, which was why I had known the Spouses would get along as they spoke the same language of tools, horses, cars, guns, but especially hunting.
We mixed their visit with a trip to town and some of our favorite stores, the Feed & Seed (where we bought more laying chicken feed and they bought… hunting socks), the beautiful nursery where we bought a nectarine tree and some-kind-of apple (half off as the tag had blown off and they were not sure what kind of apple it was) and my favorite ‘gal’ store in town which provides a great bench for men to ‘shop’ (outside) and chat…probably about hunting.
Luckily for us they were more than happy to have the total farm experience, so they helped us with…chores! Delightfully for me, My Friend an avid gardener went to work rescuing and replanting Iris’s while we handed Her Spouse a chain saw to tackle the plum ‘orchard’. So thankful was I to have help in our garden clean up by willing and knowledgeable hands. Her Spouse helped to teach me how to prune the plum trees as we pulled out suckers, getting the ‘orchard’ ready for our new nectarine and some-kind-of apple trees.
What a different life I have here and what a joy it is to share it with not only our family but our friends, new and old alike….
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We are in the blog!! What a fun trip! I didn’t finish the iris though, I felt bad about that, truly. Thank you again so much, we’ll be back,if that’s OK!!!