Beautiful Ruins was one of those books that drops off the shelf and into your hands as you peruse a bookstore. Read ME! it yelled. That’s what I love about a brick and mortar bookstore. The perfect book, at the right moment, always finds YOU.
I’d been daydreaming of a place like the scene on its cover, so I thought I’d see what it was about.
I know the holidays are over but I haven’t put away my glampers just yet. This beauty and the birdhouse below were thoughtful gifts from the three women who are the heart and soul of our Coeur d’Alene store.
Doesn’t this just make you want to put your tailfeathers on?
Drum roll for cute-as-a-button Jordan …
Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster)
Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)
My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Darla Armstrong!
Darla Armstrong (cowgirlup@21, #4391) has received a certificate of achievement in Garden Gate for earning an Intermediate Level Horse Dreams badge.
“It took me from Nov. 26 to Jan 3 to read The Soul of a Horse as required for the badge. I have read The Man Who Listens to Horses and Shy Boy by Monty Roberts. I found a lot of similarities between all three books and the authors, although I did learn a lot from The Soul of a Horse.
Call me bewildered, bamboozled, and flat-out flummoxed!
Carol sent me a little word quiz this morning that left me scratching my noggin.
She hinted that the answer was one that should come easily to any true-blue farmgirl,
but the fact is …
it had us both hoodwinked.
So, let’s see if you can guess:
What English plural word does not contain any of the same letters as its singular equivalent?
Think on it as you ponder my lush pasture below, and then meander down the page to find the answer.
The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 4,690 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far—6,500 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ
Wondering who I am? I’m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life …
For this week’s Beginner Level Stitching and Crafting/Spinning Merit Badge, I was excited to try my hand at spinning! Well, actually, my legs. After all, spinning had been all the rage at my local gym for a few years now, right alongside Water Aerobics and Jazzercise, and …
Oh, THAT kind of spinning.
Yes.
(I knew that.)
Okay, off with the sweat band and leg warmers. On with the flannel pajamas and slippers I like to sport while crafting. Now we’re ready!
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
